(n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
(n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
(n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
(n.) That which occasion crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(2) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(3) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(4) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
(5) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(6) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(7) For me, it would be to protect the young and vulnerable, to reduce crime, to improve health, to promote security and development, to provide good value for money and to protect.
(8) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(9) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(10) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(11) Anyone who has committed war crimes should be brought into the courts," the BBC reported him as saying.
(12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(13) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(14) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
(15) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
(17) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(18) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(19) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
(20) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
Criminology
Definition:
(n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only immediate alert in the UK was made by Fiona Measham, a professor of criminology at Durham University.
(2) It’s a surprisingly simple answer: as David Klinger, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St Louis and a former officer with the Los Angeles police department, says, “Officers aren’t required to risk their lives unnecessarily.” Officers are trained to use deadly force on suspects wielding weapons, Klinger said.
(3) Beginning with a group of approximately 10,000 boys born in 1945 who lived in Philadelphia from at least ages ten through seventeen, the Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, University of Pennsylvania has engaged in a longitudinal analysis of the delinquency of the birth cohort.
(4) The method is used in group identification in terms of criminological identification theory.
(5) The application of the criminological and especially the (social) emergency indications are more complex; these require the physician to make a legal evaluation based on specific factual information.
(6) This examination is followed by a review of the results of criminological research on the period of probation and of the present aims emerging with regard to this measure, in the countries where it has been tested for some time.
(7) James P Lynch, a former director of BJS and current chair of the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, hailed Comey’s complaint about the “ridiculous” state of crime stats as a watershed moment.
(8) PCR has revolutionized research in the biological sciences and medicine, and has influenced criminology and law.
(9) Tim Newburn is professor of criminology and social policy at the London School of Economics
(10) Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe to retire as Met police commissioner Read more Lead author Dr Barak Ariel, from Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, said: “The cameras create an equilibrium between the account of the officer and the account of the suspect about the same event – increasing accountability on both sides.” Body-worn cameras have been increasingly used in both Britain and the US in recent years in response to a perceived crisis in police legitimacy and disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities.
(11) Based on criminological experiences and pathomorphological, serological and toxicological studies of more than 300 fatalities, an overview is given of drugs, their intravenous abuse and drug deaths in Hamburg and the Federal Republic of Germany.
(12) For these investigations, use was made of 356 human femurs of unknown sex, which were obtained from the bone collection of the Institute of Anatomy (Kurp 1979), and 70 human humeri of known sex (Kropf 1979), which were obtained from the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, Karl Marx University at Leipzig, and which had already been measured in connection with problems of forensic osteology.
(13) Tim Newburn is professor of social policy and criminology at the LSE
(14) He has several degrees, including a recent master's from Cambridge's Institute of Criminology , which planted the idea of methodically assessing the impact of body cameras.
(15) Moreover, the norm at issue contrasts with the general principle in the Italian law that the rights concerning the personality of an individual, particularly of a minor, are to be protected, and with the fundamental norm in the law of Procedure according to which criminological examinations are not allowed during the trial.
(16) Abortion is permitted under a sociomedical indication, which consists of 4 "sub-indications": medical, eugenic, criminological, and social.
(17) The Australian Institute of Criminology’s national homicide monitoring data showed that over the decade to 2012, 1,088 of of the 2,631 homicides recorded were domestic.
(18) (1986) that psychometric instruments may be of limited utility in characterizing or differentiating among sexual offenders on the basis of criminological variables.
(19) Even someone from the second grade of the law faculty would never have issued this verdict – it goes against the basic principles of criminology."
(20) Interview data from 85 violent husbands are analyzed and interpreted in light of their implications for family violence and criminological approaches.