Sentence examples for current offences from inspiring English sources

Karen Bradley, the minister for modern slavery and organised crime, said the measure would be included in the modern slavery bill going through parliament, which brings together current offences on trafficking and slavery.

"It is positive in the sense that it is an entirely new initiative, but is it going to do anything?" The modern slavery bill brings together current offences on trafficking and slavery, introduces tougher sentences for traffickers, and creates an independent anti-slavery commissioner, likely to be a former police officer.

Furthermore, of all offenders, 78 % had never been arrested for a sexual offence prior to being caught and convicted for their current offences, which is as twice as many as what was reported by Sullivan and Beech.

"In other words, communication with a third party is an element of the current offence but it seems to us that it should be wrong and it should be an offence to illicitly remove intelligence material from an agency.

Consequently, there was little likelihood of any association between the last digit of the number and the temporal sequence in which they had been received into custody for the current offence (Perkes et al. 2011; Butler and Allbutt 2003; Armand et al. 1997).

For example the proportion that blamed their current offence on drinking rose from 30% in 1979 to 40% in 1996 and 57% in 2007.

The investigation found that neither the bank nor its employees are suspected of any current criminal offences.

"A number of large-scale investigations looking at historical and current sexual offences in Rotherham are ongoing and involve a large number of victims," it said in a statement.

Unfortunately, the current Sexual Offences Act [ 6] may inhibit such comprehensive services and may serve as a barrier to adolescent help-seeking.

All agreed, for example, that the current incitement offence in the Racial and Religious Hatred Act should remain in place.

The number of current sexual offence convictions ranged from 1 to 116 (M = 12.89, SD = 17.03).