11.   He said therapists who treated sex offenders believed strongly that acceptance of responsibility was an important part of treatment.

12.   In requiring that drug offenders be treated before being freed of supervision, they may have made themselves safer.

13.   Juvenile justice experts say moves to treat young offenders more like adults often follow incidents like the Oregon shootings because such incidents focus public attention on juvenile crime.

14.   Nationally, criminal justice observers agree that with virtually every state treating young offenders more like adults, the time has come to force the issue.

15.   Supporters and opponents of treating young offenders as adults have both seized on the Brazill case this week.

16.   Stovall will argue that the law is a civil commitment procedure, not a criminal punishment, and is designed to treat the offender, not punish him.

17.   That prompted Justice Antonin Scalia to quiz Tigar about how antiquity had treated youthful offenders.

18.   Using Depo Provera to treat sex offenders is legal, but it has not been formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration for this purpose.

19.   Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni issued a statement blaming the police for not enforcing the law against pirate stations and prosecutors and the courts for not treating offenders harshly enough.