"categories of offences" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time you need to refer to different types of violations of a law. For example, you could say: "The court has established six distinct categories of offences which fall under this law."
Disproportional outcomes were particularly noticeable in certain categories of offences.
Crime levels across Ireland increased across all the main categories of offences in 2017.
Violent offences were considered as those classified within the Assault, Homicide, and Armed Robbery categories of offences created by Victoria Police.
The VVO cases referred to cases of individuals who had been the victim of offences classified within the Assault, Homicide, and Armed Robbery categories of offences created by Victoria Police.
Offending was evaluated using data relating to charges (recorded crime) and were coded according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC) system which has 16 major categories of offences [ 31].
In 2006, the law commission recommended separate categories of offence to cover mercy killing, or a partial defence to cover compassionate cases.
These were condemned for failing their pupils – although to do so the DfE and Ofsted had to create new categories of offence, since several of the schools had been lauded by Ofsted and the DfE for superior academic performance.
The US Sentencing Commission, the independent government agency responsible for setting guidelines for judges, will meet in Washington to consider amending the "drug quantity table" – the grid that determines prison lengths for dozens of different categories of offence.
In 2006 it passed the Adam Walsh Act, named for a six-year-old boy who was kidnapped and beheaded, broadening the categories of offence for which registration is required and obliging all states to upload their registries to a national database.
As anticipated, the independent government agency, which issues sentencing guidelines to federal judges, will now spend the next few weeks reviewing its "drug quantity table" – the grid that determines prison lengths for dozens of different categories of offence – before publishing new recommendations in January.
