Malefactor

MALEFACTOR

mal-e-fak'-ter (kakopoios, "a bad doer," i.e. "evildoer," "criminal"; kakourgos, "a wrongdoer"):

The former occurs in John 18:30 the King James Version, the latter, which is the stronger term, in Luke 23:32,39. The former describes the subject as doing or making evil, the latter as creating or originating the bad, and hence, designates the more energetic, aggressive, initiating type of criminality.