Sentence examples for * commit offences from inspiring English sources

The purpose of every prison should be that each prisoner they release is less likely to commit offences than when they went in.

"It can't be sensible to turn people out of prison who are more likely to commit offences than when they went in," he argues.

People who commit offences on Tuesday will be in court on Wednesday … we are learning the lessons of the summer riots".

Some cases are clear cut: a foreign criminal who comes to the UK in order to commit offences will be unlikely to have much success at appeal.

In an interview with the Guardian, Ban said that countries whose troops commit offences should take "greater institutional responsibility" for prosecuting the crimes.

ACPO said in a statement: "The law is quite clear that undercover officers are absolutely prohibited from inducing people to commit offences they wouldn't otherwise commit.

Thus we discuss such crimes as murder, rape, and other attacks on the person, as well as such property offences as theft, fraud and criminal damage; and we discuss completed versions of these crimes, or 'non-consummate' offences that are closely linked to those complete offences, such as attempts to commit those offences.

The inquiry hears how murder suspects often return to the scene of the crime, or may commit further offences, but if the suspect knows they are being followed they would behave differently and elude the police.

You reported that "military veterans are twice as likely to be convicted for sex offences than other people and more likely to commit violent offences".

"I would certainly like women who commit serious offences sent to prison in the way that men who commit serious offences are.

Mahmood insists Qema "freely volunteered to commit criminal offences".