Example sentences for: offenders

How can you use “offenders” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most famous examples--Megan's Law (federal: requires notifying a neighborhood of the presence of a convicted sex offender), the Jimmy Ryce Act (Florida) and Stephanie's Law (Kansas: both provide for the commitment to a mental hospital of dangerous repeat sex offenders after the expiration of their prison terms)-- are but the tip of a legislative iceberg that, the Post reports, currently consists of at least 50 such laws added to the books in the past 18 months.

  • More and more conservatives now favor abolishing parole, sharply curtailing probation, imprisoning every adult felon for his or her entire term, and warehousing juvenile offenders in adult jails.

  • With surprisingly little fanfare, four states recently passed laws calling for castration--either chemical or surgical--of sex offenders.

  • An article notes that roughly half today's female juvenile offenders were raised by mothers who were arrested or incarcerated.

  • The marginal cost of killing an innocent party would be quite low if the sanction for stealing radios were life imprisonment for first-time offenders.


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