How To Use Crime In A Sentence

It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
Much of the crime in this area is related to drug abuse.
In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
When Connor sees that Michael's teenage son has witnessed the crime, it spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family.
The friend had also overheard the man say he had disposed of the handgun used in the crime, according to the in - formant. Just A 'Random' Crime

History will tell whether those responsible will be held accountable for their crimes.
Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
What could be more straightforward than telling a person he is suspected of a crime?
There is a moral crime of the highest order being committed, and somebody is morally responsible.
A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Neither does it give them excuse for committing imprisonable crimes or for not making efforts to work to support themselves. Times, Sunday Times
The government extended its remit as part of crime prevention across the aviation industry.
Another 20million was thought to be loot from crime such as robberies. The Sun
The defendant was charged with the crime of embezzlement. Christianity Today
At a period when all political ideology was imbued with religion, apostasy in any premodern state was a political crime. Times, Sunday Times
I can see taha many of the comments try to justify what happening in Gaza by other crimes committed in the human history. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
A new study showed that while street crime is rocketing, the number of thugs brought to book is plummeting. The Sun
CORONATION Street has been cleared of inciting crime after an arson plot sparked a flurry of complaints. The Sun
We will be frequently using these orders to combat vice and the directly-associated crime.
Prosecutors say he is tied to the crime by witnesses, blood spatters, ballistics and DNA analysis.
It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [ The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Tax me with my crimes!
The crime is manifestly a fiction, a movie-inspired fantasy.
Instead of a crime-does-not-pay melodrama, the play became an acute study of marital and psychological disintegration
This way the bad guys will breakin to your home rob, rape your wives, daughters, rob your home, carjack you, and all other crimes they can commit against you knowing you can not defend yourself. Senate rejects concealed weapons bill
Without such help, sexual predators are doomed to repeat their crimes.
There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia.
The New York Police Department's hate crimes unit is investigating 22 Swastika's inscrolled throughout a high school in Manhattan. CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
These are troubling times we are in mired in, for the Lord is witness to the crimes of his children and has predestined us to suffer for our sins.
The offender was dealt with leniently as he had confessed his crime.
Si ello fuera el caso, el gerente general de una empresa podría ser acusado si un trabajador suyo cometiera, de forma aislada, un crimen. Global Voices in English » Peru: Ex-President Fujimori Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
A lack of contrition would be, for example, if the defendant was purporting to express regret for his crimes in the courtroom, but simultaneously sending anonymous tweets to the effect that the trial is a sham, the judge is bought off, etc. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Subpoena to Twitter, Demanding Identification of Anonymous Critic of Corbett’s
This criminalises people who have committed no crime.
Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
The increase in violent crimes is al'lied to the rise in unemployment.
The commission suspects hate crimes against gays, lesbians, and transgender people are under-reported.
The film represents something of a milestone - many of the elements of all the crime and action films of the future are here already, in germinal form.
They also say that the offences he is accused of are not crimes in England. Times, Sunday Times
And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
We will unite in fighting crime.
Police officers have allowed themselves to be redefined as crime fighters rather than peacekeepers and protectors of the public. Times, Sunday Times
Violent crime is reaching epidemic proportions in some cities.
rising crime in our so-called civilized societies.
This has proved invaluable in solving every crime in which the perpetrator is attempting anonymity.
Le septième comte de Cardigan, qui dirigea la Charge de la cavalerie légère à Balaklava, portait un gilet à longues manches lorsqu'il combattit pendant la guerre de Crimée. Archive 2010-05-01
The intention behind not allowing the registration of cases is to keep the crime figures low thereby projecting a crimeless state. Why Dalits have slammed Mayawati's Sarv-jan Formula?
Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.
You don't need to have expertise in every area of cybercrime.
The government's primary concern is to reduce crime.
A prison sentence should match the severity of the crime.
Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker. 200 Weeks
It is my conviction , or my delusion , that crime brings its own fatality with it.
He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence.
It has also pushed up muggings and violent crime offences by 43% since its inception.
But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
The government insists that 'prison works' and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime.
A concurrent effect to this drop in violent crime occurs in the form of an increase in some levels of property crimes, including larceny and auto theft.
Mandela added that economic development would, however, in the longer term undo the socio-economic conditions responsible for a large part of the problem of crime. ANC Daily News Briefing
The prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of the crime.
On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.
Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
The small minority of motorcycle riders that are involved in criminal activity should be able to be dealt with under existing laws against organised (or other) crime, we don't need more laws specifically targeting motorbike riders, or hysterical public discussion, about "bikie" terror. Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate
He got ten years for the lesser crime of conspiracy to murder.
He was found to have aided and abetted war crimes rather than planned them. Times, Sunday Times
The unsuspended prison sentence is rare for white-collar crimes of this nature. Times, Sunday Times
The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
Ishrat was seated next to Javed who was driving the car when the crime branch team fired and punctured the rear left tyre.
Talking about crime in the abstract just isn't enough.
Legalize Prostitution; illegalize Drug Companies Advertising on TV that is a crime worthy of prosecution. Spitzer Hires A Hooker, MSM Goes Ballistic
The film follows the relationship between sexy femme fatale Suzy and young lawyer Jim, which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion.
The need for a single police service that is capacitated to fight and defeat crime. Address by ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe to NEHAWU Securities Function
The punishment is so severe that it is a deterrent for the criminal to commit the crime.
The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 after the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest on drug charges as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime. Ottawa Sun
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
Human trafficking and slavery are serious crimes.
We had no idea that this arcane "mother of all crimes" - ignored since World War II - would ever again seize public attention as it has recently, because of the conduct of John Fonda
Meanwhile, back on the hustings the law-and-order brigade has apparently got all the answers to our street crime problems.
This argument presupposes a consensus on the nature of the international crimes we have just questioned.
He's a great reader of crime fiction.
City residents also condemn migrant workers for the sharp rise in the urban crime rate.
The three-man tribunal did allow, however, that the exclusion appeared to be too harsh for the alleged crime.
The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
Fear of crime imprisons many elderly people in their homes.
David Bernstein: But let me add that by your reasoning, the fact that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting should be a crime, whereas almost everyone thinks that discrimination should be punished as a less serious civil matter, means that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting is more serious than discrimination, which by your lights means that everyone is a racist. The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
In fact, most violent crimes against sex workers remain unreported. Open Invitation to the Int’l Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers « Bound, Not Gagged
But they said the area continued to receive a smaller share of the cake than was warranted by the amount of crime committed in it.
Their slapstick stick-ups keep escalating till they realize that all of Dick's former co-workers have also turned to a similar life of crime.
A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes.
The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly. ANC Daily News Briefing
There are many agencies that help victims of crime at various stages. Times, Sunday Times
Sex crimes were just as numerous as they are today.
They differ in their formal cause, as doth clearly appear by their way or manner of acting: magistratical power takes cognizance of crimes, and passes sentence thereupon according to statutes and laws made by man: ecclesiastical power takes cognizance of, and passes judgment upon crimes according to the word of God, the Holy Scriptures. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Long-time residents of the area like the low crime rate, the quiet atmosphere and the small-town vibe.
Congress has been giving the crime bill serious consideration.
The rise in crime is often cited as evidence of a general breakdown of authority.
It is especially noteworthy that The New York Times, itself culpable of, or accessory to whatever alleged crimes Mr. Assange may be accused of, has kept its lips discretely, if unheroically sealed. Michael Brenner: Obama's War on WikiLeaks -- and Us
We also need the respect of the general public in the fight against crime and drugs.
It is hoped prisoners can provide information about unsolved cases and will call a free Crimestoppers number. Times, Sunday Times
The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
Significantly, they have been hugely overlooked as a source of knowledge about criminality within histories of criminology and theories of crime and deviance.
He has stained the good honor of his family with the guilt of his crime.
The two elements of crime in English-derived law are “mens rea” (guilty mind, or intent) and “actus reus” (the act itself). Evening Buzz: U.S. Terror Stings
Classical criminology did not assume that existing legal definitions of crime and the way they are enforced necessarily constitute this objective category.
Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
It's a classic noir detective tale but as well as a crime to be solved there's a philosophical mystery in the making.
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
The government's primary concern is to reduce crime.
He was summonsed over articles that appeared in Australia and PNG in January expressing concerns over rising crime and the security of his family in PNG.
According to the witness's testimony, you were present when the crime was committed.
There is, however, no systematic knowledge of what crime prevention officers do.
We will unite in fighting crime.
Authorities should assume an aggressive stance in screening money laundering and its related crimes.
Their task will be tackling anti-social behaviour and nuisance crime and eventually will have the power to detain, but not arrest, the public for up to 30 minutes.
During the war in the Crimea, the thinness of the British ranks soon became an embarrassment.
The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
We want deterrent sentences to prevent crime as the current laws are not stringent enough.
The place where you normally hear about petechial hemorrhages is on crime shows. Blind as a bat : Bev Vincent
This was a transparent attempt to prove his toughness on crime.
The massive petty crime is implements under the ethyl alcohol function, this by no means coincidence.
Well, you know, I'm a little confused by your characterization of this as though because a person has served a jail sentence that that somehow erases the fact that they committed a crime.
Violent crime is one of the maladies affecting modern society.
According to restaurant staff who witnessed the crime, there were at least six attackers, and they were dressed in police uniforms.
There is an equation between unemployment and rising crime levels.
That comes with a caveat - the figures denote only reported crimes - but it does suggest that these things need to be placed into context. Times, Sunday Times
Denials of rights and freedoms that inhere in man's worth before God are not simply a crime against humanity; they are a sin against God. National Council of Churches
According to the figures the total amount of violent crime rose 11 per cent to more than 812,000 incidents.
His brief brush with crime came early yesterday morning while he was attending the annual UWI Splash fête at Bowen Marine, Chaguaramas.
In cases of apparent copycat crime, victims' families sometimes have sued movie or record companies on the theory that they are responsible for the crimes their products inspired.
What's worse is that the perp will walk and go on to commit more crimes.
Joe (Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. NEW POSTER: BROTOX DANGEROUS (UPDATE)
Others may think that she fears having a fair trial and being found guilty of a crime she did not commit. The Sun
Following their conviction for tax crimes the lawyers have been given lengthy custodial sentences but pending the appeal process they are not in jail. Times, Sunday Times
In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
There have also been cases in which people have recalled perpetrating crimes of which they were innocent.
I think it was at this time that I lost it, because I did not realise a crime was taking place.
Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India.
The shock number compared to 236 reported crimes at the three-day music extravaganza last year. The Sun
It is the best way of deterring serious crime. The Sun
The country regularly lashes citizens for minor crimes. Times, Sunday Times
None of the hundreds of other people charged in absentia with similar crimes has ever been extradited to East Timor.
September 13th, 2009 MICHAEL CAINE is calling on the U. K.'s leaders to reinstate national service in an effort to clean up the streets After shooting his new movie, Harry Brown, in London's most troubled neighbourhoods, Caine fears crime and drug use is out of control in his native Britain - and the government needs to do something drastic to stop youngsters from killing one another. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
the police decided that the crime was an inside job
He was like a thick-witted detective at a crime scene, unable to make sense of clues right before his eyes.
Jerry Brown last month signed into law a plan to move people convicted of crimes deemed "non-serious, nonviolent and nonsexual" to county jails with some of the costs paid by the state. Prison Ruling Rattles California Budget
The police are trying to obtain a more accurate picture of crime levels.
A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year.
But now, with the discovery of Sally Buckland’s body in the master bedroom closet, the house had become a crime scene, its warm domesticity destroyed by everything the term entailed. Tough Customer
Currently, fingerprints are sent to the state's crime lab in Joliet and can take anywhere from a few months to a couple years for processing, depending on the type of case. Archive 2009-12-01
She must have been a terrible malefactor indeed if her crimes are in proportion to her penalty.
The programme which was intended to allow accomplices in serious crimes to turn supergrasses and give evidence in order to secure convictions was first introduced in 1997 in the wake of the Guerin murder.
America's crime-fighting agency detailed cases of staff wrongdoing over the past year in a leaked quarterly report. The Sun
For the crime of embezzlement of public funds, he and his wife were sentenced to 35 years in jail. Times, Sunday Times
People in this town starved, several buildings were bombed and crime soared because you had to steal to eat.
If technology laws infringe liberties but do not stop crime then they will not command public respect. Computing
She knows what she did was wrong and wants to be punished for her crime. The Sun
It's telling that car alarms have become mere annoyances rather than effective tools to prevent crime.
There is growing public alarm at this increase in crime.
By contrast, the literature on Britain appears to be surprisingly slim and tends to make repeated reference to the same or similar lists of crimes and cases.
They included counterterror meeting minutes, details of organised crime and information on a high-profile investigation. The Sun
Operation Trident, which tackles black-on-black crime in London, is investigating both the incidents.
Thus, income taxes and government services and other amenities and disamenities such as crime, traffic congestion, and air quality would be put aside by assuming that the costs associated with such factors did not change over time.
Today's white paper will set out a 10-point customer commitment charter aimed at recruiting the public in the battle against crime and anti social behaviour in their area.
The growth of organised crime has made interference with juries an increasingly serious threat to justice. Times, Sunday Times
They solved some crimes and bedded a lot of bikini-clad women.
said the term "thuggery" has been used as a catchall crime since the military assumed power Feb. 11 and is so broad that people have been arrested for no reason. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
She said they considered racial abuse as a hate crime and were committed to combating all acts of racism.
The men maintained they were out of the country when the crime was committed.
Police are treating the horrific crime as robbery. The Sun
Religion is often made the covert of crime.
He has reams of paper which he calls the dossier of the crime. Simon the Jester
She had no idea what she'd done to be charged with a serious crime like treason.
And I'd even go so far as to say that nothing was more political than this sovereign and slightly unreasonable decision, qualified by some we shall be kind enough not to mention here as an "inanity" or a "crime" or a bet that was "lost in advance", to craft something European through the shared efforts of two national workshops. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty
Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational?
All about us one sees the flourishing of a vigorous new illiteracy, widely distributed and attached to muscular incivility and crime.
Take prompt and professional action in response to intelligence and reports of triad - related activity and crime.
The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime.
She knows what she did was wrong and wants to be punished for her crime. The Sun
All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
The police announced to a press hungry for sensational crime stories that the young men had been part of a gang of teenagers who were out wilding.
In particular, the absence of legal means for coffee shops to obtain cannabis has highlighted their association with organized crime. Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown
But when these rants are offered abroad as legitimate criticisms of this country, it is a cultural crime.
This country has a higher crime rate per 100 000 of the population than most other European countries.
Euro Crime on Penguin reissue of Eric Ambler classics. Books
The clue of post crime case should be found in time. It is the premise that the self-investigation department of procuratorate organs conducts investigation.
In the environment they lived in it was inevitable that kids would turn to crime.
Currents article on using DNA evidence to solve crimes incorrectly referred to homes having been robbed rather than burglarized, which is considered a nonviolent, less serious crime. Corrections & Amplifications
Limits court authority to incarcerate offenders who commit certain drug crimes, break drug treatment rules or violate parole.
There was a previous thread on the evil of Che Guevara in which the righties were self-righteously denouncing Che for his crimes. The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
For example, the type of prostitution regularly mentioned is soliciting and this more commonly associated with drugs as well as other crimes.
Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

How To Use Crime In A Sentence

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