(a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
(a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
(n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(3) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(4) The evidence – which was obtained through an ongoing criminal investigation – was then put to McRoberts by the NT government “and his reaction was to resign”.
(5) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(6) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(7) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(8) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(9) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(10) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
(11) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(14) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(15) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(16) Last week, the Daily Mail reported that judges at the human rights court had handed 202 criminals "taxpayer-funded payouts of £4.4m – an average of £22,000 a head".
(17) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
(18) "We are aware of potential infiltration by criminal groups in government sectors.
(19) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(20) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
Lawbreaker
Definition:
(n.) One who disobeys the law; a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “enhanced” CCTV system would monitor visitors for lawbreaking or prohibited activities, the document adds.
(2) It doesn't diminish the importance of health practitioners following regulations to point out that this is a substantially different figure to the one in the headline: not 20% of clinics breaking the law, but evidence of lawbreaking found in less than 50 of the clinics inspected.
(3) There was a grace period of a year to comply, but lawbreakers now face prison terms of up to a year and fines of up to 1m yen (£5,500).
(4) Much stronger protections for whistleblowers might encourage future Edward Snowdens to reveal lawbreaking, but the Obama administration's crackdown on contact between officials and journalists exemplifies the likely response.
(5) The congress leader and de facto president, Nuri Abu Sahmain, quickly denounced the rebels as lawbreakers and set a two-week deadline for them to clear the ports or face attack by Misratan forces.
(6) If you look at some of these people that are in the federal [prison] system, for the most part, for the enormous majority, these are very significant lawbreakers,” Rubio said, “and I think you can make the argument you need to do a better job of putting more bad people in jail.
(7) It is possible that severe criminality, contrary to milder forms of lawbreaking, is associated with elevated self-esteem and extroversion.
(8) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
(9) It was these decisions that the supreme court on Tuesday refused to review, thus forever shielding lawbreaking telecoms from any legal accountability.
(10) "This report … says lawbreaking was condoned and that the company sought to conceal the truth.
(11) "Along with this culture of death go all kinds of lawbreaking" he said.
(12) Reagan's inattention to detail, and the hostility of his followers to Washington, provided the opportunity for lawbreaking by members of the government on a scale never before attained, and there was an endless train of resignations, arrests and court cases.
(13) Erdoğan added that he had instructed police that "we cannot allow lawbreakers to hang around freely in this square … We will clean the square".
(14) To get those viewers, the companies are presumably fine with supporting a system in which gay athletes are considered lawbreakers because of their identities, in which a Black Sea resort town is torn up environmentally to make room for an enormous global event, and in which dogs are indiscriminately killed because their presence makes Sochi less elegant to Western eyes.
(15) Lawbreakers must be punished but also offered a way out of their present situation, said the minister, who is considering reducing benefits and rights to social housing for families of those responsible for violence and looting .
(16) At least one, by my reckoning, is worse: the increasingly harsh copyright regime that has already turned countless millions of Americans into lawbreakers and deterred countless innovators.
(17) He added: "Lawbreaking is not acceptable and I hope that the full force of the law will be used."
(18) In a country that imprisons more of its ordinary citizens than any other on the planet by far, and that imposes more unforgiving punishments than any other western nation, our most powerful corporate actors once again find total impunity even for the most serious of lawbreaking.
(19) On others, most notably his justice departments’s unwillingness to prosecute Bush administration torturers and financial sector lawbreakers , he’s been infuriating.
(20) Critics argue that statistics from the Department for Transport and Transport for London (TfL), among others, show that lawbreaking by cyclists is very rarely to blame for serious accidents.