| 单词 | first offender |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst offender first offender n. a person who is convicted of a criminal offence for the first time. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > criminality > criminal person > [noun] > new first offender1808 criminaloid1890 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > a convicted criminal > convicted of first offence first offender1808 1808 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 179 Those only committed for trial; those actually convicted; hardened and first offenders; the profligate and the evil-disposed; the innocent and the guilty, ought not to be mingled indiscriminately together. 1849 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 Nov. 283/2 In the assize-yard there was a considerable number of what are called first-offenders. 1869 Temple Bar Mar. 541 We ought to temper justice with mercy in dealing with all first offenders. 1935 Economist 18 June 1353/1 Not at Borstal only, but in at least one of the prisons for first offenders, the humanising influence is at work. 1992 A. Ashworth Sentencing & Criminal Justice 225 The first general provision was in the First Offenders Act 1958, which stated that a Court should not pass a sentence of imprisonment on a first offender unless it was of the opinion that no other method of dealing with him was appropriate. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xiv. 160 You'll get fingers pointed at you..and cries of derision: Yah! First offender! < as lemmas |
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