The phrase 'violent offence' is a correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a crime that was committed with violence, such as physical harm or the threat of physical harm. For example, "The suspect was arrested and charged with a violent offence against another person."
It's not a violent offence, it's not aggravated assault or armed robbery or attempted murder.
Some, a significant minority, will be in prison because they have committed a serious or violent offence.
But the risks to children posed by school staff who share a house with someone convicted of a violent offence are far more indeterminate.
Mugging has never been a crime on the statute book; instead, it is a word used to define a violent offence committed by black people in the city.
He said it was disingenuous to suggest imprisonment rate was connected to crime, because only 25% of prisoners had been convicted of a violent offence.
The assassins made a wilful choice to take violent offence, and the result of their actions is that far more people will see these images than ever would have otherwise.
It is not a serious or violent offence and yet he is being held in prison to await his trial, because this is the fourth time he has been caught committing the same offence in the last 18 months.
Studies by the King's College Military Health Research (KCMHR) unit found that men who had fought in Iraq and Afghanistan were 53 per cent more likely than non-combatant colleagues to commit a violent offence, and that post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol misuse were also major risk factors.
She and her baby daughter were found a space in a B&B – but the room below was occupied by a young man just released from prison for committing a violent offence, and the garden was regularly used as a meeting place by drug addicts.
More than 40% (N = 34) of released participants were charged with a violent offence.
"However, any violent offence is unacceptable and will not be tolerated by our armed forces".
