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Even more troubling, the majority of these children are charged with nonviolent property and public order offenses, not capital murder and other horrific crimes.
Only 18percentt were for violent crimes and 7percentt for crimes known as public order offenses, including drunken driving, liquor law violations, disorderly conduct and vagrancy.
Twenty-one percent of girls were detained for simple assault (without weapons) and public order offenses (like loitering), compared to 12% of boys, the report said.
In all, the authorities said, 11 people, eight of them white, were arrested on charges that included criminal damage, wounding and public order offenses.
For example, judges often detain too many older defendants (people over 30), defendants with clean records and defendants charged with fraud or public order offenses — in other words, people who are less likely to commit crimes while out on bail.
Women have also had much greater increases than men for all public order offenses over the decade, said Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri at St . Louis
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The police arrested the man on suspicion of a public order offense.
Prosecutors were trying to prove that Mr. Terry's word constituted abuse, and that he had committed a racially aggravated public order offense against Mr. Ferdinand.
Newspaper Aftonbladet said that Mats Rosseli Olsen, who played for Norway in the Sochi Olympics, was charged with a public order offense and could face fines.
Charged with committing a "racially aggravated public order offense," and stripped, once again, of his England captaincy (the England manager, Fabio Capello, resigned in protest), Terry was acquitted in July.
A mentally ill British man who shouted abuse at Usain Bolt and threw a beer bottle on the track at the start of the men's Olympic 100-meter final was found guilty of a public order offense.
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