Sentence examples for offences themselves from inspiring English sources

He credits closer co-operation between police and social services, which kicked off in a big way in 1979.Children also seem to be committing fewer serious offences themselves.

But for the first time since 1948, the amnesty was not accompanied by a pardon (extinguishing the offences themselves).For untried offences, says Mr Gennaro, "this means that it is necessary to hold the trial and at the end, in the event of a guilty verdict, pass a sentence that cannot be carried out".

Would the jury have to actually witness the offence themselves?

Someone causing a disturbance by yelling or committing a criminal offence themselves could also be accused of obstructing police.

Coverage does victims no favours either, from the description of rape in inappropriate and mitigating terms to the portrayal of survivors as either perfect victims or flawed women who brought offences upon themselves.

The guidance is equally blunt about the justification for reducing compensation where victims have themselves committed offences: "We may refuse or reduce a payment if you have a criminal record, even though you may have been blameless in the incident which resulted in your injury".

Recently elected Indian Parliamentarians with criminal offences boastfully refer to themselves as baahubali, which literally translates as "muscle men" or gangsters.

How striking then – and dispiriting – to read recent reports that the compensation to over 400 sex abuse victims has been reduced because they had themselves committed criminal offences, including offences involving drink and drugs.

At the end of March, of the 147 people in prison for terrorism-related offences, 137 of them considered themselves to be Muslim.

Grown men – of whose offences I remain ignorant – apply themselves like the children whom Gradgrind taught, but in their case to writing exercises which stretch their imaginations beyond the high walls and razor wire.

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