noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first offender
habitual criminal/offender/felon etc
Persistent offenders (=people who often break the law)
▪ Persistent offenders face a prison sentence.
sex offender
young offender
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
convicted
▪ Beyond all these institutional complexities lies the prison, the probation service and mechanisms for dealing with the convicted offender.
▪ New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
female
▪ With regard to crimes that are known about, the police and courts may be more lenient with female offenders.
▪ At a deeper level, however, the concept of the mentally abnormal female offender has come under scrutiny.
▪ The female offender is characteristically older than her male counterpart.
▪ The principal method of investigation is the analysis of interviews with female offenders.
▪ Only a very small proportion of female offenders are given a custodial sentence in Britain.
ill
▪ And patients are the worst offenders.
▪ Uneaten food and other dead organic materials left in the tank are the worst offenders in pollution of the water.
▪ In my experience, those long conditioned by Centralism are the worst offenders.
▪ One of the worst offenders, the Polam lighting factory at Rzeszow, has already been shut down.
▪ In this connection some scientists are by far the worst offenders.
▪ The worst offenders are the disinfectants and pesticides.
▪ The crack cocaine epidemic has passed, and some of the worst offenders are imprisoned, mellowed or dead.
individual
▪ The emphasis is still upon the individual offender, not the crime.
juvenile
▪ There are short rehabilitation periods for juvenile offenders and persons subject to court orders or disqualifications.
▪ Massachusetts closed its traditional, prison-like juvenile corrections institutions and moved its juvenile offenders into small, community-based group homes.
▪ In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.
▪ Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.
▪ The execution of juvenile offenders is extremely rare and at least 72 countries set 18 as the minimum age for the death penalty.
known
▪ What might be acceptable would be to sample known previous offenders.
▪ Voice over A register of known offenders would narrow the field.
▪ The majority of known car crime offenders are males aged 15 to 16.
▪ This involved taking apart any statements made by known offenders and seeing if they could pinpoint a flaw somewhere along the line.
persistent
▪ Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders.
▪ I must ask my right hon. Friend to wait for an answer to his question about persistent offenders.
▪ He said one of his main concerns was the problem of persistent offenders.
▪ But the Government accepts that for persistent offenders some kind of youth detention must also be available to the courts.
▪ Male speaker I think the company should take action against the persistent offenders, not penalise everybody.
▪ The authority has warned that it will not hesitate to prosecute persistent offenders.
petty
▪ They are convicted of physical harm or damage infrequently and they are in general petty and trivial offenders.
serious
▪ Changes in the parole system were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail.
▪ Should we deny all hope to less serious offenders?
▪ The probation service and voluntary agencies were to be funded to provide an alternative form of punishment for the less serious offender.
▪ This duly transpires, but only for the more serious offenders.
violent
▪ He'd heard about the jail's reputation for handling violent and dangerous offenders.
▪ The Chronicle examined in detail 27 cases in Houston and Harris County involving violent or repeat offenders on dual supervision.
▪ Let's reduce the violent drug offenders in jail...
▪ He said the law should specifically target violent offenders, rather than drug-related offenses and less serious crimes.
▪ It was said that Wandsworth and Brixton gaols were relieved of their less violent offenders to join this service.
young
▪ Read in studio A senior police officer has criticised the way the criminal justice system handles young offenders.
▪ Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
▪ And not up to standard.Security criticised at young offenders jail.
▪ There are at present opportunities to undertake agricultural and horticultural work in the open air at 23 young offender institutions.
▪ They say the centre, to be based at a former young offenders institution, will treat refugees as criminals.
▪ Putting young offenders into a prison or other custodial establishment does not deter them from offending.
youthful
▪ Rush and others said early intervention to keep kids out of gangs is just as important as locking up youthful offenders.
■ NOUN
drug
▪ Let's reduce the violent drug offenders in jail...
▪ Of those held in federal rather than state prisons, 60 % are drug offenders with no history of violence.
▪ The Government has unveiled a national agency to coordinate the rehabilitation and regulation of drug offenders.
▪ Many of these people are non-violent drug offenders.
institution
▪ Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
▪ So far, he's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution.
▪ There are at present opportunities to undertake agricultural and horticultural work in the open air at 23 young offender institutions.
▪ The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
▪ They say the centre, to be based at a former young offenders institution, will treat refugees as criminals.
▪ Judge Angus Macdonald sentenced Diaz to 18 months in a young offenders institution and Walker to 12 months.
▪ Those in young offender institutions are occupied satisfactorily, to a certain extent, in open air work.
repeat
▪ We want a minimum one-year custodial sentence-longer for repeat offenders and organised gangs.
▪ For repeat offenders, the division can require the company to pay for prevention training for its employees.
▪ The paper puts forward a total revamp of the points system, as well as tougher sentences for repeat offenders.
▪ Check our Campaign section regularly for repeat offenders.
▪ His calls for tougher sentences for repeat offenders and swift deportation of illegal immigrants score well in opinion polls.
▪ And, as the site owner, the chat room software should let you bar people who are repeat offenders.
■ VERB
commit
▪ The policy shift was triggered by a sharp increase in violent crimes committed by young offenders during the late 1980s.
▪ A misdemeanour has been committed but the offender has not been caught.
▪ Instead, we commit these and other offenders to varying terms of imprisonment.
convict
▪ That would put a lighter burden on the prosecution, and improve the chances of convicting an offender.
deal
▪ My Department is providing £200,000 this financial year to motor projects dealing with young offenders, thereby keeping them out of custody.
▪ Beyond all these institutional complexities lies the prison, the probation service and mechanisms for dealing with the convicted offender.
▪ Eachuinn Odhar would deal with any offender.
▪ He heads the Justice Juvenile team in Gloucestershire dealing with young offenders.
▪ To cope with the massive increase in prosecutions, the paper even suggests revisions to the legal system to deal with offenders.
▪ Women and the penal system Prison is still central to our system for dealing with offenders.
▪ Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible.
▪ It is organizationally impractical because of the lack of capacity and resource in the police to deal with the resulting offenders.
prosecute
▪ The authority has warned that it will not hesitate to prosecute persistent offenders.
▪ They commit themselves to inquire into all alleged cases of torture and to prosecute offenders.
▪ The Civil Rights Division prosecuted the offender after he sought to intimidate the victim by burning a cross near his home.
punish
▪ Tony Marlow says Britain has become too civilised and doesn't punish offenders properly.
▪ The Act aimed to boost the fairness of fines, and introduced means-related unit fines as a way of punishing young offenders.
send
▪ Step forward Kenneth Clarke, with plans to empower courts to send offenders to new secure training centres.
▪ Officials sent offenders to the penalty box left and right.
▪ Hayman, a first offender, was sent to a young offenders institution for three years.
treat
▪ How can we ever hope to make the sport clean when we treat offenders so leniently?
▪ Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
offender profiling
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Among the causes of heart disease, smoking and high-fat foods are the worst offenders.
▪ drug offenders
▪ The committee will investigate more effective ways of dealing with young offenders.
▪ The courts should impose tougher punishments on offenders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And persistent offenders face losing their licence.
▪ First-time offenders will get a written warning.
▪ If so the alleged offender may be held in custody to await trial.
▪ Neoclassicism allowed that some offenders were less guilty than others because they were less responsible.
▪ Putting young offenders into a prison or other custodial establishment does not deter them from offending.
▪ Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
▪ The boy was imprisoned in the Northern Territory, which has the heaviest penalties for first-time property theft offenders.
▪ Wearing a body recorder and transmitter, he engaged in several conversations with the offenders in which they incriminated themselves.