Synonym: wrongdoer. Similar words: defender, gender, tender, render, independent, independence, offense, offensive. Meaning: [ə'fendə(r)] n. a person who transgresses moral or civil law.
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31 Law enforcement authorities simply keep a record of a low-risk offender.
32 The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
33 The conservatives and their newspapers took this occasion to denounce Arista for the summary execution of a political offender.
34 It is sometimes said that the offender must have been deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law.
35 The association has taken heart from a recent prosecution which saw one offender fined £20,000.
36 The emphasis is still upon the individual offender,[http://sentencedict.com/offender.html] not the crime.
37 They do not show that punishment has no deterrent effect on offenders, or that no offender is ever deterred.
38 The law and order lobby, in contrast, focuses on deterring the offender with ever harsher punishments.
39 The Civil Rights Division prosecuted the offender after he sought to intimidate the victim by burning a cross near his home.
40 Better value for money would result from less use of custody for many classes of offender.
41 There are at present opportunities to undertake agricultural and horticultural work in the open air at 23 young offender institutions.
42 In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman.
43 In this case the offender was caught within minutes, his movements watched from a central control room a mile away.
44 The female offender is characteristically older than her male counterpart.
45 A company which refused to make attachment of earnings deductions against one poll tax offender, was fined £200 by magistrates.
46 The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment imposed in 1981.
47 Paul also rejected the rationale of both the offender and the offended.
48 The police arrested the offender who was tried and convicted of assault.
49 An offender from outside the House may be summoned to the Bar of the House to receive punishment.
50 Defending, Robert Fairbairn, said his client, a first offender, was very ashamed of what she had done.
51 Hayman, a first offender, was sent to a young offenders institution for three years.
52 But the arrival of a high-risk offender warrants door-to-door notification of the entire neighborhood.
53 There were accordingly several moves to bring services for the young offender closer to those for the deprived child.
54 The offender entered the premises wearing a balaclava and told the sub-postmaster to open the safe.
55 Those in young offender institutions are occupied satisfactorily, to a certain extent, in open air work.
56 The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
57 A big offender is chlorine gas used for bleaching wood pulp.
58 A misdemeanour has been committed but the offender has not been caught.
59 And, far from being teenage tearaways, the typical offender is a middle-aged white-collar worker who probably drinks lager.
60 Under civil proceedings, the appropriate care and cure of the young offender is, in theory at least, the only consideration.
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