Sentences with phrase «scale than crimes»

This is mostly because property crimes are often easier to get away with on a large scale than crimes that cause bodily injury or death to people.

This is mostly because property crimes are often easier to get away with on a large scale than crimes that cause bodily injury or death to people.

Not exact matches

But the kickbacks for Putin's cronies are on the scale of billions

Mark Galeotti's study of Russian organised crime, the product of three decades of academic research and consultancy work, is more than timely.

Eschewing the argument that one evil was lesser than the other, Courtois firmly asserted that both totalitarian regimes practiced «crimes against humanity» on a monumental scale.

The answer is simple: the scale of crime has so much broadened that an entirely new paradigm is called for — bigger, deeper and far more vigorous than the present rather limited canvas of central police.

However, when we looked at socioeconomic quantities — quantities that have no analogue in biology, like wages, patents produced, crime, number of police, et cetera — we found that unlike everything we'd seen in biology, cities scale in a superlinear fashion: The exponent was bigger than 1, about 1.15.

Sentencing juveniles to appropriate correctional programs, based in the community whenever possible, rather than only to «training schools» or other large - scale detention facilities has proved a cost - effective strategy in Massachusetts and other states; recidivism and juvenile crime rates have remained low in these states.

Crime risk indices are nationally comparable on a 1 — 100 scale, where 100 means safer than 100 % of U.S. neighborhoods.