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offence

(US), offense

American football

a. the team that has possession of the ball

b. the members of a team that play in such circumstances

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ANOVAs indicated that delinquents who would go on to commit nonviolent serious offenses had significantly more prior malicious injury to property (F(1,130)=8.09, p=.005), probation violation (F(1,130)=5.03, p=.03), theft (F(1,130)=10.77, p=.001), and burglary (F(1,130)=9.85, p=.002) charges.

Predictors of serious and violent offending by adjudicated male adolescents

that defendants are sentenced based on other alleged offenses for which

Reforming the Federal Sentencing Guidelines' misguided approach to real-offense sentencing

These are just three of the many cases that illustrate how federal criminal law has overstepped its proper bounds, prescribing draconian punishments for offenses that should be handled at the state level or that should not be considered crimes at all.

Washington's biggest crime problem: the federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution

Property offenses are burglary, car theft, trespassing, and vandalism.

U.S. prisoners and their crimes

Of the hate crime incidents reported during 2002, law enforcement identified 8,832 offenses. Crimes against persons made up 67.5 percent of the identified offenses, and crimes against property accounted for 32 percent.

A total of 12,073 law enforcement agencies reported 7,462 hate crime incidents in 2002

Including the offenses surrounding the events of September 11, 2001, preliminary data show that the 2001 Crime Index remains at the 2 percent increase from the 2000 figure; the volume of violent crime increased .6 percent; and the murder volume increased 26.4 percent.

Violent crime offenses remained relatively unchanged. (Crime Data)

(10) Although they developed this model for the adult criminal justice system, with its elaborate gradations of offenses and levels of appeals, their framework can be applied to juvenile justice as well.

"The Cop will get you": The police and discretionary juvenile justice, 1890-1940

All told, in 1997, there were 271,000 people in state or federal prisons strictly for drug offenses, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, ten times the number in 1981.

A Sane Drug Policy

In the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, law enforcement agencies can clear, or "close," offenses in one of two ways: by arrest or by exceptional means.

Offenses cleared

* In 2010, 1,949 law enforcement agencies reported 6,628 hate crime incidents involving 7,699 offenses.

Incidents and offenses

DUDLEY - It could become quite expensive for businesses that serve or sell alcohol if they are cited for any one of seven alcoholic beverage violations, according to a matrix of offenses the Board of Selectmen adopted last night.

Dudley establishes list of alcohol offenses; Drug activity violations also stipulated

Some offenses see this as a great time to take a shot because the defense has to defend ninety plus yards of grass.