0 An incorrigible person or incorrigible behaviour is bad and impossible to change or improve: --
1 (of people and their behavior) impossible to improve or correct: --
an incorrigible liar
War service might be invoked in the courts as a reason either for condemning further the apparently incorrigible or for giving a chance to the penitent.
Viernstein claimed in 1930 in several high profile lectures that half of all inmates were ' incorrigible ', mostly on hereditary grounds.
As we had expected, victims who were also incorrigible were all involved in authority conflict behavior, with all of them reaching the highest step of authority avoidance.
Thus, from 1933, measures against ' incorrigible ' prisoners went hand in hand with the stricter treatment of all inmates, while the call for the rehabilitation of ' reformable ' prisoners was largely ignored.
Those prisoners regarded as ' incorrigible ' often faced the harsh conditions on stage one during their entire sentence.
Officials would be, collectively at least, incorrigible on the meaning of precedent; yet they are not.
However, the number of incorrigible boys was only 10, so conclusions are tentative.
We expect that participants who are labeled as incorrigible will be particularly involved in authority conflict behaviors.
