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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

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

Last week, the Bulwark reported that one of his campaign ads featured Ramaswamy meeting with a registered sex offender.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

The 24-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Instead of a faceless state or community, crime victims were featured at trial, and criminal cases took on the dynamics of a traditional civil trial, pitting the family of the victim against the offender.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Noboa’s government plans to hand back oversight of the prisons to the country’s penitentiary agency, with new cellphone-signal jammers, increased intelligence and the separation of violent inmates from minor offenders.

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

"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 notion that juvenile offenders are fundamentally different from adult ones lasted for more than eighty years.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater


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