Sentence examples for hardened offender from inspiring English sources

No portrait is taken unless the party is well-known to the police as an old and hardened offender".

Among the very many things that could be said about this imaginative new translation - even the hardened offender is going to blanch a little at the thought of reviewing Faust - two seem to me to stand out.

Populated by hardened offenders, it is among the last places a nonviolent government informant would want to be.

Some of the most hardened offenders were even bold enough to show their faces in shopping malls and then not shop.

Restorative justice, which tends to mean encouraging offenders to apologise and giving victims a say in how they are sentenced, has been introduced in the juvenile courts and is currently being tested on hardened offenders.

But others say that to blame the incident solely on a handful of guards ignores the larger problems facing the system, namely that too few guards are responsible for a growing number of hardened offenders serving longer sentences with less incentive to behave.

But he was about to encounter the assembly-line justice of Manhattan night court, side by side with hardened felons and repeat offenders.

Part of the problem lies in the juvenile justice system, which is doing a frighteningly effective job of turning nonviolent childhood offenders into mature, hardened criminals.

No one disputes that hardened criminals and other violent offenders should be locked up.

As a means of controlling crime, America's prisons are notoriously inefficient and only minimally effective, often creating hardened criminals out of first-time offenders.

There is no evidence that it has had any long-term impact on reducing crime, and it is certain that excessive incarceration makes career criminals of many of the nonviolent offenders whom we throw together with hardened, violent ones.