The phrase "as offenders" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing individuals who have committed a crime or wrongdoing, often in legal or sociological discussions.
Example: "The study focused on the rehabilitation of individuals identified as offenders in the criminal justice system."
Alternatives: "as wrongdoers" or "as criminals".
In "Former I.R.S. Chiefs Back Tax Haven Crackdown" (Business Day, June 9), you say that many countries that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development regards as offenders, including Panama and the Turks and Caicos Islands, "have stiffened their opposition" since Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill issued a statement on May 10.
Our results indicate that just as offenders' social networks can create offending opportunities, so too victims' social networks can create victimisation opportunities.
This has benefits for victims as well as offenders.
Activists have urged that trafficking victims forced into crime should not be treated as offenders.
A British police investigation had uncovered abuse dating back to the 1950s, with 30 locals named as offenders.
He also contends that the police often cite clubs and bars as offenders when their customers should be blamed.
The system is known as "offender-funded" justice.
Relatively speaking, relationship characteristics were as strongly related to willingness to reconcile as offender tactics.
While this model is valid on an urban scale, it fails to consider street-scale environmental factors as well as offender behaviors in response to those factors.
For simplicity of discussion, we will refer to such studies as offender or victim studies, and refer to crime uninvolved members of these study samples as uninvolved offenders or uninvolved victims.
Therefore, this study examines factors that shape the day-to-day experience for inmates such as offender status and hours spent in work assignment.
