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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reoffend .
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Examples
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The revelation that more than 1,000 foreign prisoners had been released into the community after serving their sentences without being considered for deportation – and had reoffended in some cases – rocked the reputation of the Home Office, sent panic waves rippling around a struggling government and effectively destroyed the career of the home secretary Charles Clarke.
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My point is that after a certain time has passed and someone has not reoffended, a criminal record might not always be a public safety tool or in the best interest of justice.
Paul Heroux: Reducing Recidivism: The Challenge of Successful Prisoner Re-Entry Paul Heroux 2011
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My point is that after a certain time has passed and someone has not reoffended, a criminal record might not always be a public safety tool or in the best interest of justice.
Paul Heroux: Reducing Recidivism: The Challenge of Successful Prisoner Re-Entry Paul Heroux 2011
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In other words, how many active rapists, murderers, etc. will be left out on the streets in order to go after an old man who is not known to have reoffended in three decades?
Reader poll: Send Roman Polanski to prison? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Even he let someone out that was eligible for parole that reoffended (I think that it was a volient attack like rape).
Huckabee: Justice system 'failed miserably' with Clemmons 2009
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Or similarly when a worse killer Grodin reoffended.
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Or similarly when a worse killer Grodin reoffended.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Viper - Alastair Reynolds Blue Tyson 2010
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Two years after collecting David's story, he reoffended -- killing again and then hanging himself.
Marina Cantacuzino: Failing to Draw a Line Under Vengeance 2010
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One public protection expert said there was a fear that placing the men under anything less than the most restrictive measures would trigger a furore if any reoffended: "Nobody has the bottle to take that sort of risk."
Civil liberties row sparked by tough parole controls on terrorism act offenders 2010
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I have, if anyone's interested, blogged about the statistics of reoffending rates, and these 1,000 convicts - It's inconceivable that none of them have yet reoffended.
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