Sentence examples for category of offence from inspiring English sources

The largest category of offence, with a bit more than 1.6m arrests, was drug violations.

Should Debbie's husband, Omar, be prosecuted under the same category of offence as somebody who encourages a young and vulnerable person to jump from a tall building?

The Coalition Government's relief is even greater because the continuing drop in almost every category of offence runs counter to the previous conventional wisdom that crime rises in times of austerity.

To take one category of offence, assaults involving grievous bodily harm, there are nine steps that must be followed.

It is not known what category of offences are covered.

Preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body belongs to a category of offences known as offences against public morality and policy and the instances in which it is deployed are very rare indeed.

The treaties also protect civilian non-combatants from deliberate or indiscriminate attack, reprisal killing, hostage-taking, starvation and deportation.Lowest of the lowIn addition to war crimes and genocide, there is another category of offences now recognised in international law (and first applied at the Nuremberg trials): crimes against humanity.

It proposes three different levels of detail, for three categories of offence.

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.