Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.
The Kirkwood brothers wanted electronic tags removed but police objected, saying they believed they could re-offend.
Recent statistics show the number of people given community sentences who re-offend has fallen sharply by 13%.
She claimed if released, Mr Bryson would re-offend and encourage others to do so through his speeches.
The Crown argued there was a high chance Le Galle would re-offend and pushed for a prison term.
The test will be how much of a reduction can be achieved in the rate at which prisoners re-offend within 12 months.
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Worse still, these criminals re-offend while they are on the tag.
Under the new plan, called the Managing Deliberate Defaulters (MDD) scheme, anyone who evades tax will also have their financial affairs watched closely for up to five years to make sure they do not re-offend.
According to MoJ figures, 47.5% of all offenders released from custody in 2010 re-offended within 12 months, and 57.6% of those sentenced to under 12 months released in the same period went onto re-offend within 12 months.
The overriding belief at Castle Huntly is that if offenders are simply released back into society from a closed prison, then they are much more likely to re-offend, that someone who has been helped and rehabilitated first has a better chance of making something of their life.
To ascribe profit-seeking to a profession that is heralded as an embodiment of self-sacrifice would offend the sensibilities of the public and many physicians.
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Although the idea does offend my typically libertarian, free-market political ideology, I must admit that it would absolutely jump-start the housing market if rates were lower.
He seized on a statement issued by the US embassy in Cairo, which condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions".
But it does offend our values when executives of big financial firms -- firms that are struggling -- pay themselves huge bonuses, even as they continue to rely on taxpayer assistance to stay afloat.
This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.
The Youth Justice Board should spend more of its annual budget on prevention rather than detention, they say, since once in custody, three-quarters of young people go on to offend again.
Unlike the U.S. commercial aviation industry, with strict Federal Aviation Administration oversight that can ground a fleet of aircraft, the cruise industry is largely accountable to countries like Panama or the Bahamas -- which may or may not want to offend their cruise line friends in Miami.
Teachers need material to educate, but they are also penalized--and far too strongly--when they supply students access to material that could offend.
Thus, we listened closely when Senator Obama said nearly nothing during the campaign that would offend the unions, mostly urging more spending on preschool and after-school programs.
It means that both the PPP and, especially, the other main party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by Nawaz Sharif, have a bank of religious-minded voters whom they must be careful not to offend.
Because social democrats are loth to offend the unions that provide the core of their support, their job-creation programmes still contain a big element of old-fashioned nannying.
There are a number of other factors and most importantly - and this is coming now, this is coming this year - a dangerous sex offender who may, who may indeed offend again, who may abuse and molest children again, can now or will now be able to face the possibility of life in prison.
Such inquiries will instead only offend and alienate many responsible gun owners, compromising the trust essential to the doctor-patient relationship.
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As its name suggests, opening act Does It Offend You, Yeah? doesn't take itself terribly seriously: The British electro-rock band infuses its ambitious and chaotic music with bass slaps, cowbells, and signifiers of '80s pop, not to mention healthy doses of electronic screeching.
There is nothing deceitful about ingratiation--it is merely strategic self-presentation designed to veil (not deny) personality traits that might chafe or offend.
Now that Deerhoof's Offend Maggie is out, "Fresh Born" once again sounds very different in this in-studio performance, recorded at the Gibson Showroom in New York City during the CMJ Music Festival.
Then a committee will wade through the list and pick 100 or so that are the most appropriate--ones that can be pronounced, that might resonate with the intended market and don't offend the wrong people.
Their approach may offend some people, but they said at the start they are not trying to do that or pick on anyone - they are trying to help.
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