Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OFFENDER

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Definitions of OFFENDER

1. One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
2. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

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Examples of Using OFFENDER in a Sentence

• Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer collateral consequences from wrongful acts.
• Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender.
• A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people,An offender can be anyone:.
• John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois.
• If people disobey the law, Namarrkon hisses, crackles, and even strikes the offender with his fiery spears of lightning.
• For the inexperience, vulnerable offender, federal imprisonment was an occupational hazard; from this area area offenders were often sent to Tallahassee, Florida or Chillicothe, Ohio.
• Larry Nassar, former team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team and convicted sex offender.
• Eldorado was the nearest city to the Yearning for Zion Ranch (YFZ Ranch), the headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints headed by convicted sex offender felon Warren Jeffs.
• The 300-bed Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sturtevant Transitional Facility (STF), designed to provide offender reintegration to the community and accountability for offenders, provides Alternatives to Revocation (ATR), Work Release, and Community Service programs, and acts as a holding facility, similar to a county jail.
• In criminology the term situational offender is used in several meanings, their common denominator being nontypical character of the offense in question for the person according to some criteria.
• Whenever it is compromised, the affected family or community members might feel compelled to retaliate against an offender to restore the initial "balance of honor" that preceded the perceived injury.
• In 2019, Lammy expressed deep concern at the high proportion of BAME males in young offender institutions with 51% of boys in young offender institutions identifying as BAME, saying that "England and Wales are now hitting an American scale of disproportionality in our youth justice system".
• Retributive justice contrasts with other purposes of punishment such as deterrence (prevention of future crimes), exile (prevention of opportunity) and rehabilitation of the offender.
• A 2007 study also found that it had a higher rate of victim satisfaction and offender accountability than traditional methods of justice delivery.
• Penologists have consequently evolved occupational and psychological education programs for offenders detained in prison, and a range of community service and probation orders which entail guidance and aftercare of the offender within the community.
• Forgiveness, in a psychological sense, is the intentional and voluntary process by which one who may have felt initially wronged, victimized, harmed, or hurt goes through a process of changing feelings and attitude regarding a given offender for his/her actions, and overcomes the impact of the offense, flaw or mistake including negative emotions such as resentment or a desire for vengeance.
• On discovering that the pillory was occupied, people would excitedly gather in the marketplace to taunt, tease and laugh at the offender on display.
• Sentencing guidelines in these three jurisdictions is often tiered, so that a person who is over the age of criminal responsibility (but not of full age), will receive more lenient treatment depending on how old said person is (so for example, punishment will differ between an offender who is under 12, under 14, or under 16, at the time of a given offence, for example, with harsher punishments being received the higher the age of the offender in question).
• The term is also used in criminology to describe the process by which specific predispositions may lead an offender to choose a criminal career and lifestyle.
• Kleck asserts errors in his critics' claims that his survey's estimates of defensive gun uses linked with specific crime types, or that involved a wounding of the offender, are implausibly large compared to estimates of the total numbers of such crimes.

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