offensivity

offensivity

English

Noun

offensivity (uncountable)

1. The act or status of committing a criminal offense.
   • 1973 March, Martin Weitzner; Alexander Smith; Harriet Pollack; Israel Gerver; Robert M. Figlio, editor, “A Study of the Relationship of Disposition and Subsequent Criminal Behavior in a Sample of Youthful Marihuana Offenders in New York State”, in Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective (The Technical Papers of the Second Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse), volume III (The Legal System and Drug Control), page 801:

     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.

   • 1981 October 30, Raymond A. Novak, “Common Pleas”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 55, number 78, page 16:

     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.

   • 2020, Astolfo Di Amato; Federica Fucito, Criminal Law in Italy, fourth edition, Kluwer Law International B.V., →ISBN:

     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.

2. The likelihood of committing a criminal offense.
   • 1978, Marvin E. Wolfgang, “From Boy to Man—From Delinquency to Crime”, in Serious Youth Crime: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session, April 10 and 12, 1978, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 357:

     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.

   • 1993, Richard C. Monk, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Crime and Criminology, The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 180:

     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.

3. Offensiveness.
   • 2010 May 9, Dan Lozer, “Judge confuses issues in prayer ruling”, in Sioux City Journal, page B1:

     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.

4. The quality of being on the offensive; proactiveness.
   • 2013, “Irreflexive Energies: The Ontology of the Headstart”, in Wieland Hoban, transl., In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization, Polity, translation of Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals by Peter Sloterdijk, →ISBN, page 66:

     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.