Sentence examples for small offender from inspiring English sources

For example, larger organizations have greater capacity and resources which makes crime displacement a more likely threat to prevention; the opposite is also true where an occasional criminal with a simple, small offender organization could be deterred by just a stern warning or a simple overt packaging countermeasure.

At the moment, restorative justice for under-18-year-olds in England and Wales is effectively limited to first time and minor offenders, and to small, local initiatives.

So far, only a fraction of the small backstreet offenders have had their land surveyed.

The number of criminal prosecutions for tax evasion more than doubled in the UK during the last tax year, amid claims that the exchequer has increased its hit-rate by targeting "small time" offenders suspected of defrauding the taxpayer.

It started out as a stupid prank, but a small-time offender arrested by police later in connection with an unrelated incident sought a better deal for himself by identifying Martinez as a bicycle thief.

McAlpine is giving some of the smaller tweet offenders' money to charity, his lawyer says.

The cases the I.R.S. is pursuing, the Syracuse study found, are skewed to small-time offenders.

Private-probation companies, too, have quietly taken off in recent years, often selling themselves as a cheap way to keep small-time offenders out of jail.

He had accused her of being soft on crime because she supported probation for nonviolent small-time offenders (to make room in prisons for violent felons).

During labor shortages, inmates say Masanjia officials simply buy small-time offenders from other cities on a sliding scale that begins at 800 renminbi, or about $130, for six months of labor.

This means making sure that fewer people die from drug overdoses and that small-time offenders do not end up in jail where their drug problems get worse.