Sentence examples for petty offences from inspiring English sources

Most women in prison have committed petty offences.

Police will lose powers to fine rickshaw drivers for petty offences, playing to a core group of supporters.

For largely petty offences, the harsh sentences being handed down have a distinctly showy quality to them.

Police officers were found to have overwhelmingly charged African Americans with "petty offences", according to the law enforcement official.

Two-thirds of women are in for less than six months: these are damaged people in jail for petty offences.

His death, along with that of other unarmed black men accused of petty offences by white police officers, has raised questions about police tactics.

Wildlife law before 2013 treated poaching as a petty offence.

He remembered Billy Williamson caning his whole class for one child's "fairly petty" offence.

This can almost make killing your parents look like a petty offence.

First he must amend the legislation which treats wildlife crime as a petty offence that attracts a maximum penalty less than a speeding ticket.

After several hours of debate legislators in the lower house on Tuesday gave final passage to drug law amendments that make possession of up to 2oz (56.6g) of marijuana a petty offence that would not result in a criminal record.