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offender

[uh-fen-der] / əˈfɛn dər /


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The offender wasn’t an outsider managing his money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Her crime of assisting an offender is not one of the offences excluded from changes to the early release scheme.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Comey has worked on cases against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was convicted on prostitution-related charges involving his two ex-girlfriends last year.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

She never rewarded them and she punished an offender only twice before she removed her.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Around 650 more offenders will leave jails in England and Wales on Tuesday in the third phase of the government's plan to end the prison population crisis.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

“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,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Probably some social worker type of person had come up with this program called “O.L.D. Friend” for juvenile offenders.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold


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