Sentences with phrase «problem than crime»

The fear of crime is a greater problem than crime itself.»

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A Christian MP has said the there is «serious problem in the criminal justice system» after a report found ethnic minority defendants are more likely to be jailed for some crimes than white people.

A community of stable families has fewer problems with crime, antisocial behaviour and isolation than a community in which short - lived relationships are the norm.

Studies indicate that «losses in computer crime are much more severe than those in traditional crime» (Sieber, 1986: 34) and «the problems caused by computer crime are bound to intensify in the future».

Nevertheless, there is now a growing willingness - as long as it is made clear that this is no excuse for the existence of this appalling crime within an organisation which ought to be an example to society at large rather than a reflection of it - to think seriously about what that implies for our relationship to a society which, because of our bishops» gross mishandling of the problem, we now have small hope of influencing in this matter.

The problem is that when something is tabooed it causes more social harm and evil than good — similar to the Prohibition era when the sale of alcohol was dragged underground and caused an outbreak of organised crime.

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.

C'm on Goodell his problems were of a lesser nature than committing a crime or injuring another person..

The US has a much more serious crime problem than does Europe.

«Hate crimes is something that we've always looked seriously at, but the increasing of penalties for certain classes, we've started to have problems with that, because we don't want to make it seem like one person's life or the crime that happens to them should have a stiffer penalty than say you or I. So, those have been some of the challenges that we've had.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

Today a Treasury spokesman admitted carousel fraud was a problem across the EU and said more than 1,400 staff were deployed specifically to tackle this type of crime.

The appeal might be problem solving, the association with crime (from a forensics perspective rather than as a felon!)

I've been out of the biz for more than a decade (now I write crime novels), but I assume the industry has the same problem.

When higher than average housing prices combine with other problems, such as low household income, high unemployment, declining population and high crime, it can be enough to sink a city to the end of our list.

Education solves problems in more areas than just crime.

Prisoners over the age of 65 rarely commit further crimes (around 4 % according to the ACLU) and cost more per prisoner than non-elders due to health problems.

While it can be hard to understand why someone would falsely confess to a crime, psychological research has provided some answers — and DNA exonerations have proven that the problem is more widespread than many people think.

But health problems there, along with the crime rate, drive the life expectancy much lower than the national average.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

For some female offenders, marriage is linked to increased drug use and crime.33 The marital relationships of female offenders may be typified by conflict and instability.34 Antisocial girls facing the transition to young adulthood have more general relationship problems than their male counterparts.35 In such relationships, women are often victims of abusive partners, but also often perpetrate abuse.

Juvenile onset depression that did not recur in adulthood had a higher proportion of men, externalising behaviours (similar to Harrington et al's findings2), perinatal problems, conduct disorder, MDD, crime by parents, and difficult temperament than juvenile onset depression that recurred in adulthood.

Adult crime rates were higher in all groups of antisocial girls than in any group of either normal control subjects or girls with other psychiatric problems.

In the 2006 publication Ending violence and abuse in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, HREOC noted that efforts to redress problems concerning alcohol from the side of reducing «supply» could only be regarded as a situational crime prevention technique, rather than an underlying crime prevention technique.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.

For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of crime and family violence the solutions to that problem are seen to lie in strategies that attend to the needs of all members of the community, particularly in «healing» rather than punishing the victimisers.

Margari et al. [31] found that juvenile offenders who had committed crimes against people showed more ADHD symptoms and conduct problems than adolescents who had committed property crimes and alcohol - drug - related crimes.