| Subject | English | Russian |
| law | persistent offender | закоренелый преступник |
| law | persistent offender | рецидивист (The Home Office has defined a persistent or prolific offender as someone who is 18 or over and has been convicted of six or more recordable offences in the last 12 months. The terms are used interchangeably Vladimir71) |
| law | persistent offender | упорный преступник |
| law | persistent offender | упорный |
| gen. | persistent offender | злостный правонарушитель (jodrey) |
| law | persistent young offender | несовершеннолетний рецидивист (mitrushka) |