The special treatment unit provides treatment for serious offenders with a high risk of re-offending who have been convicted of at least one violent offence.
12.
The categories of criminal conviction contained within the Extract from the Criminal Record includes those involving offences against children, sexual offences, violent offences and narcotics offences.
13.
An offence under section 20 is a specified offence for the purposes of chapter 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 because it is a specified violent offence.
14.
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm is a specified offence for the purposes of chapter 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 because it is a specified violent offence.
15.
A sentence of life imprisonment is available to the court for offenders over the age of 18 who are convicted of a second serious sexual or violent offence.
16.
The availability of diversion programs depends upon the jurisdiction, the nature of the crime ( usually non-violent offences ) and in many cases the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
17.
Between 1997 and 2007, the women s prison population more than doubled, and, as with children and young people, the vast majority were there for non-violent offences.
18.
Judges must also sentence offenders to life imprisonment without possibility of parole if they have a previous conviction for a serious violent offence, unless it would be manifestly unjust to do so.
19.
At precisely the same time, Joe Owens, a Merseyside BNP candidate with several convictions for violent offences, began sending him emails gloating that he had photographic details of his house, car and family.
20.
This move to establish a sound definition of terrorism in the law made it possible to build an entirely new set of police and investigatory powers into incidents of this kind, beyond what they could do for ordinary violent offences.
