first offender Definitie in het Nederlands

Examples of first offender

• Probation is generally granted to young prisoners and first offenders but usually not permitted in cases that the law classifies as the most serious. 

• Not only does the public gradually become cognizant of the treatment accorded them, but some attempt at discrimination is made between the first offenders and those hardened by long practice in that most hideous of occupations. 

• In many instances it is quite sufficient punishment for a first offender in a petty case to be publicly rebuked in the police court. 

• First offenders were soused with a bucket of water. 

• Even our earthly courts are lenient toward first offenders.