InsaneJournal

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At work, one of my jobs is to make sure we get up-to-date lists of offender's previous convictions from the police, since someone's current offence could be pretty innocuous, but there could be all sorts of things in their background. (FYI: I work for the Probation Service in the UK.)

Anyway, since this happens for every single offender who passes through our doors - including ones who just come to us for pre-sentence reports, and never actually end up under Probation supervision - I have now seen a lot of pre-cons.

Today, however, I was handed the pre-cons for an offender who had thirty-eight convictions for one hundred and thirty-six offences. That's more offences than I've seen on anyone else's pre-cons list, ever. (Not the most convictions, however. Since you can be charged with multiple offences at once, one conviction entry can have several offences listed on it - as evidenced by this guy! The most convictions I've ever seen was eighty-six.)

I love my job and I'm learning a lot, but I do not think I will ever be able to understand how someone can rack up that many offences. Sheesh.