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Offender Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me. |
| 2. | to affect (the sense, taste, etc.) disagreeably. |
| 3. | to violate or transgress (a criminal, religious, or moral law). | |
| 4. | to hurt or cause pain to. |
| 5. | (in Biblical use) to cause to fall into sinful ways. |
–verb (used without object) | 6. | to cause resentful displeasure; irritate, annoy, or anger: a remark so thoughtless it can only offend. |
| 7. | to err in conduct; commit a sin, crime, or fault. |
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Related topics from Britannicahabitual offender
person who frequently has been convicted of criminal behaviour and is presumed to be a danger to society. In an attempt to protect society from such criminals, penal systems throughout the world ...
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Knowledge of the types of people who commit crimes is subject to one overriding limitation: it is generally based on studies of those who have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted, and those ...
procedural law
The law of criminal procedure regulates the modes of apprehending, charging, and trying suspected offenders; the imposition of penalties on convicted offenders; and the methods of challenging the ...
punishment
Incapacitation refers to the act of making an individual "incapable" of committing a crime-historically by execution or banishment, and in more modern times by execution or lengthy periods of ...
punishment
The most recently formulated theory of punishment is that of rehabilitation-the idea that the purpose of punishment is to apply treatment and training to the offender so that he is made capable of ...
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Several means of penalizing offenders involve neither prison terms nor the payment of money. One alternative, community supervision, may take many different forms but essentially involves the ...
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Related to the fine is an order to pay restitution (also known by the term compensation), which has been a popular alternative to punitive sentencing in some countries. Instead of emphasizing ...
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