Sentences with phrase «potential victims of crime»

For example, in the 1980s, the offence of «rape» (a man having sexual intercourse with a woman who was not his wife) was changed significantly to the broader «sexual assault», and no longer excluded males or wives as potential victims of the crime of sexual assault.

This would be a duty to potential victims of crime, enforceable mainly by people who have subsequently become victims because of an alleged failure to carry out the duty.

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«Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.»

Other potential Democratic candidates include David Calone, a venture capitalist who also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who shares offices with Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.

When leaders of a school, church or youth group fail to report what they know about potential crimes, the real damage they do is to the child victims.

Six of the people the researchers chose were defendants in court for committing genocidal crimes, but had also reported rescuing potential victims.

Rounding out the selection are random street crimes where you must find the potential victim and then wait for the criminal, leaping out in the nick of time to save the day, and ctOS boxes, which are Far Cry's radio towers in all but name.

They provide assistance to people in conflict with the law, their families, those who have the potential to be in conflict with the law, and victims of crime.

We believe that in abuse situations — to a greater extent than in situations involving crime victims in general — there is clear potential for abusers to cause further serious harm to the victim or to others, such as other family members in a household or other residents of a nursing home.

The police do not owe them a duty of care as the family members of a victim of a potential crime.