offender
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Rehabilitation experts say that the recalls are often more likely to be linked to the offender failing to keep to appointments or living at a specific address.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
The offender wasn’t an outsider managing his money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
It follows a predictable pattern: deny the harm, attack the credibility of the person who named the harm, and reverse the roles of victim and offender.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Several other people have been arrested in connection with the incident, including two men, aged 24 and 30, and two women, aged 25 and 21, who have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Sometimes the one who spotted a perched elbow would sneak out of his chair and walk all the way around the table, so that he could catch the offender.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Extreme overcrowding, underfunding, corruption and mixing hardened criminals with minor offenders are some reasons Latin American prisons have become crime hubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Barnes said the department will cooperate with ICE to the extent the law allows to prevent serious criminal offenders from returning to communities they have preyed on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
That includes accounts owned by convicted sex offenders.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
"I have concluded that attempting to distinguish among crimes and offenders for clemency would inadvertently create two classes of murder victims -- those whose perpetrators deserve the death penalty and then the rest," Newsom said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
The authors of the study found that many of these offenders weren’t even particularly biased toward their victims, but were following the lead of a more biased peer.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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