Sentence examples for majority of offenders from inspiring English sources

Research in the UK also indicates not only that the vast majority of offenders want to stop offending, but that they see employment as key to achieving this [ 25].

According to the Corrections Department's 2007 Over-representation of Māori in the criminal justice system report, drug offending is a type of offending "in which the vast majority of offenders are apprehended directly as a result of police activity, rather than by way of crimes being reported by the public".

But they're not the majority of offenders".

This proposal is not going to affect the vast majority of offenders".

Applying it only to perpetrators who have gone to jail or who have a criminal record would lock out the majority of offenders.

But here is the radical contemporary critique of its impact: "Prison sentences are not succeeding in turning the majority of offenders away from crime.

Add to this the fact that the vast majority of sex offenders do not reoffend, and the relative uselessness of sex offender registries as instruments of public safety becomes clear.

The majority of the offenders, 64.1 % (n = 366) were housed in a prison-based sex offender treatment facility while 35.7%% (n = 204) of the offenders were in the general population of the state prison.

An overwhelming majority of young offenders grow out of crime.

The vast majority of young offenders are held at county facilities.

"The majority of the offenders appear to have acted as part of organised crime groups.