Names sit awkwardly, keeping credit for offenders (10)

I believe the answer is:

miscreants

'offenders' is the definition.
(miscreant is a kind of offender)

'names sit awkwardly keeping credit' is the wordplay.
'awkwardly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'keeping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'credit' becomes 'cr'.
'names'+'sit'='namessit'
'namessit' anagrammed gives 'miseants'.
'miseants' placed around 'cr' is 'MISCREANTS'.

'for' is the link.

(Another definition for miscreants that I've seen is " Wicked types".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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