ASK a Londoner particularly a middle-class Londoner how to raise standards of law and order in their city, and they are likely to talk about putting more officers on the streets, upping the number of minorities in uniform, and cracking down harder on minor quality-of-life offences.
But the popular "broken windows" theory of policing in the 1980s, which argued that tackling trivial "quality-of-life" offences fostered a lawful atmosphere that discouraged more serious crimes, led to crackdowns on graffiti and unlicensed clubs, making the outlaw creativity that spawned hip-hop no longer possible.
One cannot help but feel that interrupting a meal and interrupting a woman's life are offences held in somewhat equal regard in this world.
For the first 10 years of its life, the offence required those charged to be "in open air" – as hunt saboteurs, the obvious targets of the new criminalisation in 1994, would have been.
He was a looming figure in American life: an offence to Hollywood in the way he achieved a carte blanche contract, and a boy wonder of such arrogance that it was said of him, "There but for the grace of God, goes God".
Many members of the community were furious at the perceived injustice that children are receiving life sentences for offences they watched happen but did not commit.
He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for offences that include 'conducting secession', 'destroying the royal government' and 'destroying bodies of public power'.
Riley, who appeared by video link from prison, was jailed for a minimum of 13 years of a life term for offences including conspiracy to apply a corrosive liquid at a sentencing hearing on Friday.
Leinders was a Team Sky doctor between 2011-2012 – wongins won the Tour de France in the latter year – who was later banned for life for doping offences committed during a previous stint at the tainted Rabobank cycling team between 2001-2009.
It wasn't until June 2012 that Walsh was finally vindicated when the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) banned Armstrong from competitive cycling for life for doping offences and said he had been engaged in "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".
David Cullen was jailed for life after admitting offences against Suzie's son and eight others.
