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"Nearly a half century ago, researchers found that a small number of juvenile offenders- 6 percent-were responsible for a disproportionate amount of the violent crime attributed to a group of nearly 10,000 individuals. Further studies have supported the idea of a "chronic 6 percent" and, in the process, provided law enforcement with one of the most useful concepts in the history of criminology known as the......."

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The answer is Chronic Offender

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Chronic offender is the term used by the criminology to define who has frequent interactions with law enforcement and has a lengthy history of arrests, commonly for the same or similar crimes. Normally, refers to a small number of people that are responsible for a large percentage of crime.

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