offender
- noun
- /əˈfɛndər/
- Community service is often offered as a alternative for first-time offenders.
- a juvenile offender
- repeat offender
- drug offenders
She won't put repeat offenders, violent offenders in jail.
- She won't put repeat offenders, violent offenders in jail.
- But they also want the offender's own conscience to be against them.
- And it took me to Chums for Young Offenders Institute in my Army uniform.
- Just start identifying offenders on the Internet.
- People are getting let out of jail even if they're violent offenders.
- Because to truly forgive means that you no longer resent the offender.
- So they will say that, you know, offenders are punished with physical pain, right?
- He's not encouraging or assisting the offender.
- So I think, I don't think it's one type of violent offender.
- I mean, this is just, this is the cabinet of sexual offenders.
- I think that all nonviolent drug offenders in prison should be released.
- So the first database that I had access to was the Indiana State Sex Offenders Registry.
- Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
- It shouldn't be, you know, we, we shouldn't have these, these one or two time offenders.
- OK, Denial, attack, reversing victim and offender, DARVO.
- I thought I've always experimented, experimented and the young offenders have experimented.
Examples
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We talk to juvenile offenders, try to let them see the reality of prison.
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He's a known offender.
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To do otherwise meant death for the offender, for such was the law of the people.
Fiction book (1990) -
So let's first look at the question of the role of the offender in the crime.
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Without that motion, the judge has no authority to reduce the offender's sentence.
Academic text (1999) -
Last year, California passed a flat-time law for drug offenders.
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The average age of the offenders was twenty-eight, with a range of twenty to fifty-three years.
Academic text (1991) -
Add in the illegal substances involved and you're looking at jail time, a hefty fine, and registration as a sex offender.
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Additionally, data revealed that approximately 36% of violent offenders in state prisons were not diploma holders.
Academic text (2011) -
Boys were given "black marks" for misbehaving, and repeat offenders lost privileges or could be suspended or expelled.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
A person who has committed a crime or broken the law
A person who commits a crime or other serious wrong
A person who breaks a law or other rule
A person who does things that are against the law
A person who breaks the law or hurts other people
A person who breaks a law or important rule
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Morphology
Etymology
Offender comes from old parts ob- meaning 'against' and fendere meaning 'to strike', a root you also see in the word defend. So an offender is someone who 'goes against' or breaks the law.