offender
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That’s like staying in the dugout during a bench-clearing brawl then offering the offender a handshake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
A 38-year-old man from Gowerton and a 38-year-old man from Mount Pleasant arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Jazz said: "Me, along with all of my family, found out via Facebook that he was in fact a convicted sex offender."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Thames Valley Police said it arrested a 40-year-old woman from Milton Keynes on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender in connection with efforts to locate Sakyi.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Schirach’s successor, Artur Axmann, was sentenced to thirty-nine months’ imprisonment as a major offender and fined 35,000 marks.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
One part of the plan means that most jailed offenders on fixed terms will leave jail after serving a third of their term behind bars, rather than at the halfway point.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The government has insisted the Act will not see early releases for offenders deemed "the most dangerous", including those on extended determinate or life sentences.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Countries around the world restrict information about child offenders or set a high bar for identifying them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The department instead recommended the defendants be diverted to a program for first-time offenders that allows them to have the charges dismissed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
