What's the difference between perp and perpetrator?

Perp


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PERP values for these 41 substances differ by more than 100,000-fold from each other.
  • (2) Set in a future world ravaged by nuclear war, where judges in vast cities have the power to summarily execute criminals (or "perps"), and where Dredd is the greatest judge of them all, Beeby's story will also feature the comic strip's first ever portrayal of a Muslim Mega-City One judge in PSI Judge Hamida, a woman who uncovers a possible suicide cult.
  • (3) Production of transforming virus was found in QERC-31N, PERP and PERY.
  • (4) Both PERP and PERY showed macrophage-like morphology with phagocytic capacity.
  • (5) There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary.
  • (6) Ranked by PERP, these chemicals are: ethylene dibromide, ethylene dichloride, 1,3-butadiene, tetrachloroethylene, propylene oxide, chloroform, formaldehyde, methylene chloride, dioxane, and benzene.
  • (7) Fans will tell you a perpetrator or criminal is a "perp", a child is a "juve".
  • (8) But the result looked like a perp walk , the footage carrying the same visual grammar as yet another 70s celebrity helping police with their inquiries.
  • (9) The pair looked on glumly as Sharpton lectured that “the best way to make police stop using illegal chokeholds is to perp-walk one of them that did”.
  • (10) Four continuous lines of RSV-transformed quail cells were established; QERC-31F and QERC-31N cells derived from quail embryo cells and PERP and PERY cells from adult quail peritoneal macrophages.
  • (11) "You need to send out a slew of indictments, all at once, and at 3pm on a sunny day, have federal marshals perp walk 300 Wall Street executives out of their offices in handcuffs and out on the street with lots of cameras rolling," he said.
  • (12) The PERP does not take into account the actual level of exposure or the number of exposed workers.

Perpetrator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
  • (2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
  • (3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (4) Let us be clear: these children are victims, not perpetrators,” he said.
  • (5) The perpetrator was either a relative or a "trusted other" in 97.2% of sexual abuse cases.
  • (6) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
  • (7) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
  • (8) Even when things are taken more seriously, harassers are generally allowed to leave quietly, which enables them to move some place else and do the same thing.” Many of the women who made complaints to their institutions said they felt they were the ones on trial, while alleged perpetrators were often protected by management who feared losing a star researcher and their funding.
  • (9) Violence appears to mobilise people against the perpetrators, the study found.
  • (10) The court itself concluded that 'torture is perpetrated systematically by the General Intelligence Directorate'.
  • (11) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
  • (12) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
  • (13) It says family violence involves partners, siblings, parents, children and distant family members, yet the state’s approach “responds almost exclusively to adult female victims (and dependent children) and adult male perpetrators ...
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
  • (15) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
  • (16) The DSM-III diagnoses made on discharge were not related to presence of abuse, age of abuse onset, duration and frequency of abuse, or relationship of the victim to the perpetrator.
  • (17) The reality is the perpetrators of these crimes are overwhelmingly men.
  • (18) They only have to hear the voice of the perpetrator and they’re in this dissociative state,” Miller said.
  • (19) It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up “in the history of the world”).
  • (20) Using a definition under which adolescent relationship abuse can occur in person or through electronic means, in public or private, and between current or past dating partners , the survey estimates that 25 million US adolescents are victims and nearly 23 million are perpetrators.

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