The people they're offending are the people we want to offend -- the Islamic terrorists ...
Such a comment by a representative of the State Department - an institution that never saw a foreign government it wanted to offend - is a sign of how serious Team Obama is about "resetting" the U.S.-U.K. relationship.
Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.
The Kirkwood brothers wanted electronic tags removed but police objected, saying they believed they could re-offend.
Recent statistics show the number of people given community sentences who re-offend has fallen sharply by 13%.
She claimed if released, Mr Bryson would re-offend and encourage others to do so through his speeches.
The Crown argued there was a high chance Le Galle would re-offend and pushed for a prison term.
The test will be how much of a reduction can be achieved in the rate at which prisoners re-offend within 12 months.
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While chemicals might succeed in stopping paedophiles using their bodies to re-offend, nothing is being done to reform the paedophile imprisoned in his mind.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for life after the court was told there was a "significant risk" that he may re-offend.
Worse still, these criminals re-offend while they are on the tag.
Her husband is on the sex offenders' register for life and is visited on a regular basis by a probation office, and Anne said she is confident he will not re-offend.
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Under the new plan, called the Managing Deliberate Defaulters (MDD) scheme, anyone who evades tax will also have their financial affairs watched closely for up to five years to make sure they do not re-offend.
According to MoJ figures, 47.5% of all offenders released from custody in 2010 re-offended within 12 months, and 57.6% of those sentenced to under 12 months released in the same period went onto re-offend within 12 months.
The overriding belief at Castle Huntly is that if offenders are simply released back into society from a closed prison, then they are much more likely to re-offend, that someone who has been helped and rehabilitated first has a better chance of making something of their life.
Mr Lagos's options are to insist on digging up the truth about the dictatorship and on bringing the guilty to trial which would distract the government from other priorities or to sponsor a national agreement to stop prosecutions concerning the atrocities of the Pinochet era, which would offend its left-wing supporters.
Try not to offend (removing China name-calling from combative economic policy references in the State of the Union speech).
To ascribe profit-seeking to a profession that is heralded as an embodiment of self-sacrifice would offend the sensibilities of the public and many physicians.
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If you use the F-word you will offend someone in the audience.
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Although the idea does offend my typically libertarian, free-market political ideology, I must admit that it would absolutely jump-start the housing market if rates were lower.
The Duke of Edinburgh , Queen Elizabeth's husband, is notorious for making jokes that might offend the recipient and make bystanders cringe - many of them based on old-fashioned racial stereotypes.
He seized on a statement issued by the US embassy in Cairo, which condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions".
But it does offend our values when executives of big financial firms -- firms that are struggling -- pay themselves huge bonuses, even as they continue to rely on taxpayer assistance to stay afloat.
This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.
The Youth Justice Board should spend more of its annual budget on prevention rather than detention, they say, since once in custody, three-quarters of young people go on to offend again.
Match referee Mike Procter said he was satisfied Harbhajan had used the word - though neither of the two umpires heard the remarks - and that "he meant it to offend on the basis of Symonds' race or ethnic origin".
Unlike the U.S. commercial aviation industry, with strict Federal Aviation Administration oversight that can ground a fleet of aircraft, the cruise industry is largely accountable to countries like Panama or the Bahamas -- which may or may not want to offend their cruise line friends in Miami.
Teachers need material to educate, but they are also penalized--and far too strongly--when they supply students access to material that could offend.
Thus, we listened closely when Senator Obama said nearly nothing during the campaign that would offend the unions, mostly urging more spending on preschool and after-school programs.
It means that both the PPP and, especially, the other main party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by Nawaz Sharif, have a bank of religious-minded voters whom they must be careful not to offend.
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