Sentence examples for offences fear from inspiring English sources

9 Reasons for low police ascertainment include reliance on victims to report offences, fear of reprisals, not knowing the identity of assailants, few incentives to report, and unwillingness of victims to have their conduct scrutinised.

Women's rights campaigners believe this could stop women reporting rape and other offences for fear they will find themselves in the same situation.

There is huge concern that the Evans retrial – during which the complainant was quizzed in detail and at length about whom she had had sex with, the positions she favoured and the language she used during it – may stop some women reporting rape and other offences for fear they will find themselves in the same situation.

But there is no minimum sentence for either offence and critics fear he may be given a non-custodial sentence like community service or a fine.

Statistics to be published next month will show that muggings, burglary and robbery, the offences which the public fear most, are all on the increase.

And fear of offence shows you are scared of what happens if people express their opinions.

That is despite the site never showing ads on British television, for fear of offence about their content.

Poehler could make this joke without fear of offence for the simply reason that it was self-evidently a joke.

Eh? Franzen doesn't want to tell his brother that he is better than Crichton, for fear of offence; but he is sure he is better than Crichton anyway!

Kunzru referred to the Nobel laureate's absence and said: "I feel we would be stronger and more credible if we were to deal with divergent views within this meeting rather than a priori excluding someone because of fear that offence might be given".

I argue that these portrayals fuel women's perceptions of fear and offence, and force them to limit their movements.