Dangerous Offender

In Canada and England and Wales, certain convicted persons may be designated as dangerous offenders and subject to a longer, or indefinite, term of preventive detention in order to protect the public.

Famous quotes containing the words dangerous and/or offender:

    A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The offender never pardons.
    English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)