Sentences with phrase «aged out of their crime»

By that time, they had aged out of their crime - prone years, explains Virginia's attorney general Robert F. McDonnell: «Most serious crimes are committed by people between the ages of 18 and 32.»

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These offenders often «age out» of crime, as the authors put it.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

In 1998, the House of Lords threw out an amendment to the Crime and Disorder Bill that would have equalised the age of consent at 16.

«We've given up a lot of what we want just to get a raise the age bill that gets kids out of criminal court and being convicted of a crime and more importantly, getting them out of adult jail,» Lentol said Wednesday.

The movie borrows most heavily from Frank Miller's seminal 1986 The Dark Knight Returns mini-series, which told of an aged, bitter Batman who was forced out of retirement by a surge in crime and had to defend his brutal methods against a government - lackey Superman.

This film is a reflection of the times, telling a twisted coming - of - age story about a young woman who sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media.

The rose - colored depiction of a con's life along with a teen who indulges in crime and the occasional cigarette and beer may rule out viewing by those similarly aged.

The fact that 20 percent of all youths and 50 percent of black teen - agers are out of work, the Gallup Poll's president said, has resulted in major social problems such as teen - age crime, drug abuse, and alcoholism.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

In the report published by the National Crime Prevention Council, 37 % of high school - age teenagers said they can prevent their parents from finding out what they do online.

He pointed out a variety of hurdles for current green - belt farmers: there has been a significant decline in horticultural production in London since 1970 and the contribution to the London economy of horticultural production is minor; vandalism and crime are a major issue; very few farmers own the land they manage; many farmers want to diversify (2005 survey), but they often see legislation as a barrier to this; many also want to release land for community use, but there is a need to balance the risks to the stakeholders; ageing is an issue as there are no young, skilled newcomers joining the industry.

Inside / Out follows Patrick Keating's journey as a child growing up in Montreal, getting into drugs and crime, entering the juvenile detention system at the age of 16, and serving a total of three sentences, one for bank robbery.

The relevant crimes are set out in SOA 2003, Sch 3, and the duration of the notification requirement depends on the sentence imposed by the court and the age of the offender — if an offender was aged under 18 then the notification period for determinate periods is one - half of the adult period (see SOA 2003, s 82 (2)-RRB-.

The premium for your own home will depend on a variety of factors such as the age of your home, the type of construction, the crime rate in your area and your home's location (rural areas generally pay more, in part because firefighters have to travel farther to put out fires).

While the 100RC programme identifies 11 shocks, from a nuclear incident to civil unrest, the one that stands out for Evangelinos in terms of a vibrant downtown is the possibility of «financial and / or economic crisis», while possible stresses (from a list of 37) could include aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, uncontrolled urban development and an undiversified economy.