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单词 young offender
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young offender
young offender n. a young person convicted of a criminal offence, esp. one under the legal age of majority (in early use not a fixed collocation).
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1680 Don Tomazo sig. B Young offenders incurr the displeasure of the Law, ere they hardly understand what the Law forbids.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 213 The young Offender was spar'd, having obtain'd a Reprieve.
1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 4 Apr. (1971) 384 There are many young offenders in this prison—as young as from 16 to 12.
1854 Law Mag. Feb. 52 Young offenders had better be reformed than criminalized.
1921 B. G. Lewis Offender (ed. 2) ii. i. 268 The young vagrant or the young offender is usually a person who has not been trained.
1971 R. Cross Punishment, Prison & Public iv. 187 The courts should be empowered to pass fixed-term custodial sentences on young offenders between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one.
2002 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Electronic ed.) 4 Sept. A teenager who committed a catalogue of crime has been sentenced to six months at a young offenders' institution.
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