offendern.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 259 (MED) And so þe offendir dampneþ and hirteþ his owne soule, and me, & his neiȝbore.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) ii. f. li^v A synner & offender of god.

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .ii Haue mercy vpon vs miserable offendors.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 6 Several moral rules..which can only be the will and law of a God..who..has..power enough to call to account the proudest offender.

1739 H. Brooke Let. 7 Oct. in A. P. Jenkins Corr. T. Secker (1991) 43 All Which I was determined to do, at My own Expence, to make an Example of this offender.

1779 Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 164 All of them have laws, some written ones, by which they punish offenders, and terminate disputes.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 A blow or an abusive expression subjected the offender to a fine.

1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 161 It is the general belief that Oro swallows his victims alive, but in reality offenders are dragged alive by the feet, hands and feet being bound, till death puts an end to the torture.

1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. i. 102 Of course, as to ramble, London is a bad offender; but London is beautiful all the same.

1980 T. Ireland Catherine Loves xiii. 93 If either of you does anything like this again, I'll take my belt to the offender.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 2719 (MED) Let hym be ware he haue no delyte In punysshyng of þe offendoure.

1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 568/2 An Action therof ayenst the seid offendour.

1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII ii Every shiriffe..shall attach the saide offenders.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 700 A Clarke or Officer in the Kings Bench, whose function is to frame..Indictments against..offenders..called Clarke of the Crowne office.

1699 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 366 To punish offenders, & put the laws in more strict Execution.

1770 J. Howard State of Prisons in C. M. H. Clark Select Documents Austral. Hist. (1950) i. 21 There the petty offender is committed for instruction to the most profligate.

1807 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases U.S. & Pennsylvania 4 255 It merely declares in this, as in every instance of the penal code what shall constitute an offence, and how the offender shall be punished.

1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 86 An Act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain... Whereas Reformatory Schools for the better training of Juvenile Offenders have been..established.

1890 Polit. Sci. Q. 5 526 The strongest proof of the impotence of our present system of dealing with criminals, the increasing number of recidivists or habitual offenders.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 34 56 I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States..the utmost diligence in preventing violations of the said Joint Resolution and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same.

1994 J. Rozenberg Search for Justice 51 Under the new funding arrangements courts are given an incentive to crack down on offenders who do not pay their fines.

1599 G. Silver Paradoxes Def. 12 (heading) George Siluer his resolution vpon that hidden or doubtfull question, who hath the aduantage of the Offender or Defender.

1794 Hope's New Meth. Fencing 219 As I have put Restrictions upon the Defender, so the Offender or Thruster must be likewise limited.

1987 Times 25 May 3/1 British police have been making experimental use of professional psychologists to build up profiles of sex offenders and help detectives to catch them or forecast their next moves. The concept, known as Psychological Offender Profiling, or POP, originated with the FBI in the United States.

1988 Sunday Times 4 Dec. b5/3 Our aim..is to make psychological offender profiling a science.

1994 Guardian 26 Oct. (Society section) 6/1–2 Five years ago, offender profiling was widely regarded as a major breakthrough in police work; today its public reputation is severely damaged.

2001 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 14 July Each chapter explores a different technique and seminal cases in that field, from fingerprints, ballistics and offender profiling through to surveillance, interrogation and DNA.