Sentence examples for offence a crime from inspiring English sources

The teacher, who is Muslim, has gone into hiding – and the school's 77-year-old principal and founder has been arrested by police and charged with the same offence, a crime that in Pakistan carries the death penalty.

This petty theft was classed as a property offence, a crime serious enough to fall under mandatory sentencing laws.

Prepared by the police, a First Information Report (FIR) documents a cognizable offence: a crime that the police are empowered to investigate without applying for a court warrant.

This could include defining a partially-reported offence as "no crime" or a "crime-related incident" - neither of which make it into national figures.

Anita Wilson, a prison researcher, claims that young women are often sent to prison for first offences for crimes which would not carry a custodial sentence for young men.

Establishes a raft of new criminal offences including crimes involving familial sexual abuse, offences involving adult relatives and offences designed to give protection to persons with a mental disorder.

"The province … experiences a high rate of executions for drug-related offences or crimes deemed to constitute 'enmity against God' in the absence of fair trials".

In September 2014, the attorney general, Jeremy Wright, said the government was considering making corporate failure to prevent economic crime an offence.

"Everyone deserves a second chance, but those who commit the most serious offences, crimes that would attract a sentence of 10 or more years, cannot be allowed to just go on and on causing harm, distress and injury," said Grayling.

But those who commit the most serious offences, crimes that would attract a sentence of 10 or more years, cannot be allowed to just go on and on causing harm, distress and injury.

The ICC is not formally extending its jurisdiction, but the court said it would assess existing offences, such as crimes against humanity, in a broader context.