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Definition of First offender
1. Noun. Someone convicted for the first time.
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Offender
Literary usage of First offender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Century of Charades by William Bellamy (1894)
"MY first, offender 'gainst agrarian laws, Was shot, for no one would defend his
cause. On Mansfield Mountain once did dwell A youth who did my second well. ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1904)
"The first offender under arrest is interviewed and his case is looked into.
Great care is taken that the offender be benefited and not injured. ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"19a, provides that any juvenile or first offender of the age of 21 years or under
... Held, that a boy 16 years of age was a "first offender" though he had ..."
4. Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the by American Bar Association (1919)
"I am just as firmly of the opinion that in the case of the first offender, if
reports and examination satisfy the court that such person released on pro- ..."
5. Intermediate Sanctions in Sentencing Guidelines by Michael Tonry (1997)
"The second may be a drug-dependent first offender; in this case, ... The third
may be a non-drug-dependent first offender, employed and with a family; ..."
6. The Offender and His Relations to Law and Society by Burdette Gibson Lewis (1921)
"Chief among these were, first, that the young or first offender was brought into
contact with the old offender, and was taught all the tricks of the convict ..."
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