Sentence examples for offender intent from inspiring English sources

Identifying problems in this way highlights their harms, the victim/offender relationship, offender intent and facilitating environments, which all help decision-makers find effective responses more quickly (Eck [2003]).

Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel for Koch Industries, told The Huffington Post that he considered the commission's emphasis on offender intent "a positive development and consistent with the Bill of Rights".

And he said the rules should bore more deeply into the offender's intent.

Further enhancements can apply if the offender evidenced an intent to carry out the threat (6-level enhancement); made more than two threats (2-level enhancement); caused substantial disruption of public, governmental, or business functions or services (4-level enhancement); or created a substantial risk of inciting others to harm federal officials (2-level enhancement).

An offence of strict liability is committed when the facts support the commission of offence, without the need to prove intent or intention on the part of the offender.

Was he a "serial" offender or a hobbyist, intent on abusing or inebriated?

At the same time, the Depravity Standard protects criminal defendants from the abuses of power or lack of resources that enable the system to pile on to an offender whose crime by its intent, actions, victimology, and attitudes does not otherwise distinguish itself.

Visible security features 'tell' the public that a place can be used safely, while potential offenders 'are 'told' that their malign intent is likely to be in vain or at least will require a significant degree of effort' (Coaffee et al. 2009).

Proponents say moving those sex offender registries online is consistent with the intent of the law that created them, making it easier to make the public aware of sex offenders in their communities.

Shame has been related to self-injurious behavior with or without suicide intent, in one study of offender women [ 22] and one study of women with borderline personality disorder (BPD) [ 23].

In addition, tax investigation authorities will no longer have to prove "intent to evade tax" to prosecute offenders.