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nouna person who transgresses moral or civil law
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- ticket a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)
- mercy leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
- probation a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself
- probation (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court
- stocks a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
- treason a crime that undermines the offender's government
- amnesty a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- delinquent a young offender
- corrections the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
- corrections the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole