Meaning of offensivity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or status of committing a criminal offense.
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2. The likelihood of committing a criminal offense.
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3. Offensiveness.
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4. The quality of being on the offensive; proactiveness.
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Examples

“However, the major concern of this study is the reaction of the criminal justice system to marijuana offensivity and the resulting subsequent criminal behavior of those subjected to legal sanctioning.”

“Opposed the last sentencing proposal because it provided that a judge sentencing an adult could not consider much of adult’s prior record as juvenile. Patterns of chronic offensivity usually surface prior to 18th year.”

“In these cases, according to the principle of offensivity, there is no punishment, and it is a task of the judge to understand if the perpetrator is socially dangerous.”

“On the other hand, there are some strong assertions, supported by statistical analysis, to be made about adult offensivity and adult assaults based on juvenile offensivity and juvenile assaults.”

“Standard research determines the offensivity of people by counting the number of criminal acts they have committed in a specified period. The aim is to account for variation in the measure of offensivity.”

“The other issue is whether we have a right to avoid being "offended" by hearing others disagree. This is constitutionally protected speech. I have no right to be "protected" from, say, a Letter to the Editor expressing a religious idea other than my own. I can read it or let it alone, but cannot use my offensivity to deny others the right to read it.”

“The firm link between subjectivity and offensivity reveals that the inner stabilization of a perpetrator culture is at stake here. Nonetheless, the future actors are chronically overtaxed by their own offensivity and originality, as they can never convincingly manage to explain the nature of their perpetratordom and their leap ahead into the unknown.”

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