Abstract
Crime rates are high not because large numbers of people commit one or two crimes in a lifetime but because a relatively small number of people are habitual offenders. This commonly recognized fact about crime is beginning to provide a major impetus for devoting extra police and prosecutorial resources to apprehending, prosecuting, and incarcerating the worst recidivist offenders. In the past five years, one hundred district attorneys have initiated formal programs to deal with adult habitual offenders. Many rely heavily on prior criminal records to designate individuals as career offenders. There is little doubt that in the end such
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