What's the difference between offender and wrongdoer?

Offender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (4) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (5) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (6) Driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders with either alcohol- or cocaine-related problems were studied.
  • (7) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
  • (8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (9) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (10) The number of suspected or known offenders has doubled in three years to 1,139 in 2016.
  • (11) Therefore, the authors present an update of the changing conceptualizations regarding the offenders and their victims.
  • (12) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
  • (13) The joint report also highlights the fact that bad behaviour by inmates on the prison wings is seen as a security issue rather than something that needs to be addressed by the offender management unit.
  • (14) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (15) The offending organism was gram-negative in one third of these abscesses.
  • (16) In our highly medicated society, correctly identifying the offending medication is often difficult.
  • (17) These findings suggest that judges may perceive of and sentence repeat offenders differently than first-time offenders, regardless of the level of intoxication at arrest.
  • (18) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
  • (19) A spokesperson for the PPS's office in Belfast said: "Based on the initial evidence the specified prosecutor in this case had concluded that the assisting offender had knowingly breached his agreement under section 73 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and that it was in the interest of justice that the case should be referred back to the original sentencing court.
  • (20) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.

Wrongdoer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who injures another, or who does wrong.
  • (n.) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
  • (2) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
  • (3) At the time when he should be campaigning for his allies, he has to sit in the position of the wrongdoer and defend himself."
  • (4) Most 4-year-olds judged a wrongdoer to experience positive emotions, focusing their justifications on the successful outcome of his action, whereas almost all 8-year-olds attributed negative feelings, focusing on the moral value of the wrongdoer's action.
  • (5) Like many of those who have been vilified, he seems to consider himself more wronged than wrongdoer; a victim of a dysfunctional system.
  • (6) International law was being flouted on a global scale and the international community was failing to prosecute wrongdoers, Ban said.
  • (7) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
  • (8) We will follow the facts wherever they go and we will determine whether to bring criminal charges against any companies or individual wrongdoers.” It is unusual for US authorities to seek a criminal prosecution of companies or executives, with prosecutors tending to accept an admittance of guilt, an apology from the chief executive and multimillion-dollar fines.
  • (9) It has subpoena power – excellent for commandeering embarrassing financial documents – and just enough resources and publicity power to really strike fear into Wall Street wrongdoers.
  • (10) It’s now a relic of a more violent age, a time when wrongdoers were whipped, put in the stocks or transported to distant countries for penal servitude.
  • (11) The bulk of NCP cases these days involve mediation with companies that are linked to adverse impacts through business relationships, rather than in which they are alleged to be wrongdoers themselves.
  • (12) This, together with the recent arrest of a billionaire Brazilian banker , is enough to tell the world that the rule of law operates in Brazil and wrongdoers will be apprehended.
  • (13) 4- and 5-year-olds attributed positive emotions to a wrongdoer even if his transgression was severe and if he did not gain any material profit from it.
  • (14) He said at the time: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.
  • (15) Under this, police can grant powers to civilians involved in crowd control so they can issue fines for offences such as littering, and can require suspected wrongdoers to give their name and address.
  • (16) A “serpent” and a “wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations” are among the kinder epithets hurled by mainland propagandists.
  • (17) Single-handedly, she turned the dull-sounding public accounts committee into the most rigorous scrutineer, excoriating wrongdoers and backsliders.
  • (18) What if your crime – if it can be called that – is to be born the son, grandson or great-grandson many times removed from those wrongdoers, their acts echoing in your blood and in your name?
  • (19) In a pinch, if niceness failed, he could presumably instil order on set by fixing the wrongdoers with an unsmiling stare.
  • (20) UK must do more to defeat Isis in Syria and Iraq, says May Read more “When they say that these are wronged Muslims getting revenge on their western wrongdoers, let’s remind them: from Kosovo to Somalia, countries like Britain have stepped in to save Muslim people from massacres.

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