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If you are surprised at the level of abuse of children by clergy in a country like the US which has a highly developed police and legal system to handle such crimes, consider how high the abuse probably is in less developed countries like those of South America.

If we all stop believing in God, we will probably stop going to church, and then we will lose friendships we had at church, then people will be less happy, then more crime will occur, then war will occur, then we will all die.

Look at countries that have less people identifying themselves with religion and you will find higher acheiving education systems, better social services and lower crime rates.

It should be a crime to allow some people to parent at all, much less before they're ready.

The Government has long since established that children who are brought up by a mother and father are less likely to fall into crime and are more likely to succeed at school and be emotionally stable.

Jack's middling performance at Koln was hampered IMO — as his usual partner - in - crime — Giroud — seemed less - mobile and less involved; likely from the thigh injury picked up on international duty.

«I'd even go so far as to say that were you to tell the public that if you decriminalised heroin and cocaine and that therefore there would be less crime, they would, at first, say they didn't like it — but if it worked there'd be support.»

«What happened in New York is no less than a disgrace, a crime,» Astorino said in a speech at the state Republican convention here.

In other words, they are aimed at creating less crime.

ROBBERY & CRIMINAL USE OF A FIREARM Less Jones, age 20, residing at 13 Slinn Avenue, Spring Valley, NY, was indicted on December 5, 2012 by a Rockland County Grand Jury for the crimes of robbery in the first and second degrees and criminal use of a firearm in the first degree.

A study done by the University of Illinois at Chicago entitled «Insecure Communities: Latino Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement,» found that 45 percent of Latinos stated that they are less likely to voluntarily offer information about crimes, and 45 percent are less likely to report a crime because they are afraid the police will ask them or people they know about their immigration status.

EVEN at the tender age of 3, children who later go on to be convicted of a crime are less likely to learn to link fear with a certain noise than those who don't.

When Lara Frumkin, then at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, set up mock trials using videotaped eyewitness testimony, the jury perceived the same person to be less credible if they spoke with a foreign accent (Psychology, Crime & Law, vol 13, p 317).

Published in PLOS ONE, the research found that eyewitnesses to a crime who sleep before being given a lineup are much less likely to pick an innocent person out of a lineup — at least when the perpetrator is not in the lineup.

Even at the tender age of 3, children who will go on to be convicted of a crime are less likely to learn to link fear with a certain noise than those who don't.

More punishment does not necessarily lead to less crime, say researchers at ETH Zurich who have been studying the origins of crime with a computer model.

Using the model, the scientists were able to demonstrate that tougher punishments do not necessarily lead to less crime and, if so, then at least not to the extent the punishment effort is increased.

WITNESSES to a crime might recall events and faces less accurately if physically exhausted at the time of the incident.

Feeling less pressure on their budgets, police departments started arresting not only those suspected of lesser crimes, they also started arresting people less likely to be charged at all in the end.

Fox's Rosewood tries so badly to create the next prime - time super couple, but the duo at the heart of this awkward crime procedural are less together than they are apart.

But you probably haven't seen one quite like «Wind River,» a movie less interested in examining the crime than in uncovering the icicle of grief at its core.

A good story gets stuck in a puddle of mood in «Dark Crimes,» a film that strays from its fascinating source - a real - life murder case - into a less successful attempt at noir.

The leisurely opening set in Munich and the later, plodding material at Lisa's family home in Verona are full of padding, and the final revenge sequence lands with substantially less power than the crimes that preceded it.

As just desserts for shooting off at the mouth, the chief assigns him a new partner, «Hutch» (Wilson, The Big Bounce), who has a less ambitious approach to fighting crime, sometimes using his position to be a part of it.

by Walter Chaw It's probably not at all surprising that lock - step director Gary Fleder's Don't Say a Word, based on a by - the - numbers novel by fiction hack Andrew Klavan (True Crime), has less original material than Michael Jackson.

Today it is clear that it is so - called capitalist democracy that has ominously spawned a complacent populace (outspoken, yes, but never the less complacent), complacent enough to purge the collective psyche and keep it at bay long enough to enable us to commit the most heinous of crimes.

Among schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more, one - third reported at least one serious violent crime, compared with less than one - tenth of schools with fewer than 1,000 students.

The study found that the teenage birthrate is at an all - time low, that youths were less likely in 2002 to commit violent crimes or become victims of them...

According to researchers Mary Keegan Eamon and Jun Sung Hong, children in areas with high crime rates viewed their schools as less safe while children who discussed their schoolwork with parents felt safer at school.

Adolescents were 82 percent less likely to be the victim of crimes at school in 2014 than they were in 1992, for example.

Research conducted on students in Milwaukee, Wisc., finds that children using a voucher to attend a private school, especially students that spent many years at a school of their choosing, are less likely to commit crime.

A separate study of the integration program in North Carolina's Charlotte - Mecklenburg county schools showed that at - risk students who were able to attend their school of choice were less likely to commit a violent crime or spend time in jail.

The typical annual income for a college graduate here is almost $ 51,000, the concentration of young adults is above average at 24 percent, and the crime rate is distinctly low at less than one violent incident per 1,000 residents.

I'd like to think that if home burglaries were stomped out at their source, there would be less people moving onto bigger crimes like bank robberies (A metaphor for anybody thinking about moving from Kotaku to IGN)

As in that series, Guybrush will have to do a little outside the court investigating to find the evidence he needs, although his methods have more to do with slyly subverting the system of pirate law than getting at the truth of a case, since Guybrush is more or less guilty of most of the crimes he is accused of.

Maybe less than a decade from now, we'll be playing Grand Theft Auto V as a visual overlay on our wearable computers, committing realistic - looking virtual crimes while we shop at the grocery store.

Track says LEAF has been fighting for increased funding to legal aid since at least 2002, when the province began slashing its legal services budget — ultimately providing aid to only victims of violent crime and litigants earning less than $ 25,000 per year.

It explained that «highly intrusive» border searches, like strip searches, require «reasonable suspicion» of a crime (a lesser showing than «probable cause»), and that all other searches can be made without any suspicion of a crime at all.

That's a point made by Doug Berman at the Sentencing Law Blog («Rather, I wish primarily to urge anyone and everyone defending President Bush's sentencing determination in the Libby case to explain why all these less prominent defendants — most of whom are now locked in a cell while Libby now makes plans for the paid lecture circuit — don't also merit some executive sympathy»); Ellen Pogdor at White Collar Crime Blog («But what is bothersome here is that one elite individual is receiving this benefit while others with comparable circumstances will not have this benefit — it all comes down to who has access to the President.

that MMPs offer no incentive for those guilty of crimes to resolve charges, while at the same time they offer a perverse incentive for innocent people to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid a higher minimum sentence.

Michael Spratt, a criminal defence lawyer at Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP in Ottawa (and columnist for Canadian Lawyer), says that MMPs offer no incentive for those guilty of crimes to resolve charges, while at the same time they offer a perverse incentive for innocent people to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid a higher minimum sentence.

I agree that pointing a gun at someone is a lesser crime than shooting at someone (if unjustified), what I meant is that there is no situation when pointing the gun at someone would be completely legal but shooting wouldn't.

Personally, if I'd been on the law firms» pro bono committees, I wouldn't have chosen to represent detainees when there are so many far more compelling, but less sexy cases (such as defense of indigent criminal defendants accused of capital crimes at the trial level rather than up at the Supreme Court, for starters) where litigants desperately need representation.

Most crimes of embezzlement involving property valued at $ 950 or less will generally be misdemeanors.

This shows that there is less of a need for crime based comprehensive coverage, where as the environmental side may require at least enough to cover your vehicle.

Although lower crime areas may be less expensive to insure, the truth of the matter is that most renters don't have coverage at all.

If you find a perfect house at a bargain basement price and you're wondering why it costs less than a similar house five streets over, it may be because the one you have your eye on is in an area with a high crime rate.

The second thing they look at is your relative risk; the more likely the insurance company is to pay out large sums of money for your policy, the more your rates will be (this is why drivers who have never been in an accident and homes in low - crime areas cost less to insure).

A recent study of the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, for instance, showed that children who enrolled at age three and stayed for two years were less likely to need special education services and less likely to commit crimes later in life compared with children who started preschool at age four.Irma Arteaga et al., «One Year of Preschool or Two: Is It Important for Adult Outcomes?»

Pre-Kindergarten Fight Crime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of socCrime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of soccrime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of society.