Sentence examples for a single offender from inspiring English sources

This suggests a growing political will to punish bribe payers; but approximately half of the OECD countries have yet to sanction a single offender.

Using a scale devised under Labour's 2003 Criminal Justice Act it ranges from a 15 year starting point for serial rapists to five years for a single offence of rape by a single offender.

The government passed a bill last year to prosecute service members for retaliating against sex assault victims — but the Department of Defense could not prove Thursday that they had charged a single offender, Bhagwati said.

There was a single offender in all cases.

The annual cost of conduct disorder-related crime in England may be as high as £22.5bn, while the lifetime cost for a single prolific offender may be as high as £1.1-1.9m [ 3].

General deterrence aims to have an impact on more than just the single offender.

But even if it has company, it is the largest single offender.

DNA testing is far more effective – it can identify a single perpetrator – but offenders are getting wise to the technique.

"They're letting four and five offenders gather in a single house to create little sex offender clubs to prey on our children," said Ms. Pulliam, who has worked strenuously to rally neighbors against the newcomers to her block.

The Justice Department says it has developed a Web site to provide the public with a single, searchable national sex-offender registry.

They raise distinct constitutional issues, and together could go far toward defining what limits apply and what justifications are needed when the government carves a single category of criminal offenders out of all others for especially burdensome treatment.