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:
“It’s a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter’s husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)