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:
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)