The Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

The Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, and Victoria
The Sentencing Act 2005 (ACT), the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act
2003 (Qld), and the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) govern habitual offenders. An offender
can be incarcerated indeterminately if there is a high probability, given the offender's
character, the nature of their offense, psychiatric evidence as to the dangerousness of
the defendant, and any other relevant circumstances, that the offender poses a serious
threat to the community. The indeterminate sentence(s) must be reviewed by the court
when the nominal sentence (the minimum term the offender would have been required
to serve if they were not dangerous) has expired, and every three years after.
The minimum nominal sentence that can be imposed is ten years, but the sentencing
judge can extend this if they believe that the prisoner's criminal history and/or the nature
of the prisoner's offending warrants it.
The longest nominal sentence on sentence(s) of indeterminate imprisonment is 30
years, currently being served by serial pedophile Geoffrey Robert Dobbs (Queensland),
who pleaded guilty to 124 sex offences and one count of attempting to pervert the
course of justice committed against 63 girls aged between one month and 15 years
(including five family members) under his care as a teacher and youth leader from 1972
to 2000.
Canada
In Canada, the Habitual Offender Act in Canada dealt with multiple offenders. The law
was repealed after a Law Commission Report of 1969 found it to be erratically applied
and was often used against non-violent and non-dangerous offenders. In 1977, Part
XXIV of the Criminal Code was enacted for habitual offenders, providing for
indeterminate or determinate sentences for offenders found to be dangerous who would
be eligible for parole after three years and has the authority to extend such
indeterminate non-parole period at any time.
China
On 1930, the town of Guangzhou enacted a mandatory death penalty for those
offenders who received their third conviction.
France
From 2007 to 2014, France had peines planchers (literally "floor sentences"), which set
a minimum floor to the sentences of recidivist offenders.
Enacted under President Nicolas Sarkozy, they were repealed under his
successor François Hollande, which made this point a part of his platform.
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