Sentences with phrase «more serious violent crimes»

10 % of all public schools had one or more serious violent crimes (murder, rape, sexual battery, suicide, physical attack or fight with a weapon, or robbery)

10 percent reported one or more serious violent crimes, such as physical attacks, fights with a weapon, rape or sexual battery, suicide, or robbery.

Not exact matches

Mr Grieve said: «Conservatives would deploy more police on the streets to catch and deter violent offenders, ensure more prison places so that serious violent offenders who should be in jail are in jail and tackle the long term causes of crime which lead to so much tragic violence.»

Even after making statistical allowances for factors such as psychiatric disorders, economic status, and prior violent acts, they found that those who watched 1 to 3 hours of TV per day were about 60 % more likely to get in a serious fight, threaten someone, or use a weapon to commit a crime than those who watched less than an hour a day.

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.

When someone grows up in or lives in poverty, they are more likely to engage in violent crimes and have serious health complications later in life.

The Armed Career Criminal Act provides that if a person is convicted of a crime involving the use of a firearm and the individual has three or more earlier convictions for a «serious drug offense» or a «violent felony,» the prison term is a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of life.

In 1994, a new theory was embraced by the NYPD: that by controlling low - level «quality - of - life» violations like vandalism, noise complaints, traffic violations and aggressive panhandling, the police would ward off violent crime and more serious property crimes.

In fact, the survey demonstrates that serious violent crime is modestly down from last decade (though the decline is not as pronounced as the more general crime index).

Reasons included (1) judges «grade on a curve» and, after sitting through 20 cases involving violent crimes, might not find a more minor crime as serious whereas a jury would not share this context; (2) defendants will select those judges who they believe will be more inclined to acquit; (3) judges are bound by fixed sentencing rules so rather than sentence a defendant of a nonserious crime to a lengthy term they avoid that dilemma through acquittal; (4) judges might better understand the complex elements of certain corporate crimes and, unlike a jury, would recognize when the prosecution failed to carry its burden and (5) some judges may just have something against prosecutors.

Similar to what he believes would happen with marijuana, this would perhaps limit other more serious and violent crimes related to these other illicit drugs.

People with serious mental illness are more likely to perpetrate violent crime than to be victims of it.

Drinking a little turns into drinking a lot, marijuana use leads to harder drug use, petty crime morphs to serious crime and abuse becomes more violent.

In 1998, the serious violent crime offending rate for youth was 27 crimes per 1,000 adolescents ages 12 to17, totaling 616,000 such crimes involving juveniles — a drop by more than half from the 1993 high, and the lowest level since data were first collected in 1973.»

Violent crimes are far more serious than crimes like underage drinking.