Convicted offenders are typically not members of this group.

All 50 states have some form of enhanced sentencing for previously convicted offenders.

A convicted offender will also be assessed two points against his driver's license.

Further, the writings of convicted offenders may be utilised in crime prevention.

Each month, they will be compared with 200,000 profiles from convicted offenders and crime scene evidence submitted by police around the country.

Convicted offenders can expect long jail sentences and heavy fines.

At least 36 states require convicted offenders to register with the police, but only a few have laws providing for community notice.

Sentences imposed on the 11 convicted offenders ranged from one to five years in prison.

It would also allow the state to notify residents when a convicted offender moves into their neighborhood.

The site includes addresses for the convicted offenders, with the number of the street address partly withheld.

New Hampshire has a law requiring convicted offenders to tell the police where they live, but the police cannot make the information public.

Read more about the backlog of convicted offender and arrestee samples.

Federal funding has helped analysts test more than 1.8 million convicted offender and arrestee samples since 2005.

The number of convicted offenders may total more than six million if parolees and probationers are also counted.

Convicted offenders also face the seizure of assets.

The department usually sets up a payment schedule for a convicted offender so that the fine can be paid in regular installments.

Justice Department officials attributed this to the broader number of convicted offenders law enforcement officials are now testing.

It is a Class E felony, for which even a convicted offender may be granted probation.

Convicted offenders who were not jailed received sentences such as probation, fines or mandatory community service, the bureau reported.

Beyond all these institutional complexities lies the prison, the probation service and mechanisms for dealing with the convicted offender.

In some circumstances detainees can be held without charge, indefinitely and convicted offenders may face lengthy jail sentences.

It makes little sense, they argue, to keep houses shut when the convicted offenders are already free, especially with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks under way.

The system was still in its infancy, and the genetic profiles of half a million convicted offenders had not yet been entered into the system.

Matches made between the forensic and convicted offender indexes can provide investigators with the identity of a suspect(s).