Sentences with phrase «serious than crimes»

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

Not exact matches

Currently nearly three out of every four convicted criminals are not incarcerated and fewer than one in ten serious crimes results in imprisonment.

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.

In some sense to render it «do not murder» rather than «do not kill» is more accurate, for it does not seem, originally at least, to have ruled out killing in a war or execution by the proper authorities for some serious crime against the community.

It is not that God required blood — it is that we sinners wouldn't approach Him without some compensation provided from our part for all our wrongdoings (and that compensation for serious crimes has to be, in our mind, a serious one: what is more serious than blood (life) of an innocent creature, in exchange for all our dirt and death we see in ourselves).

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

The proposal would let military prosecutors — rather than commanders — decide whether to bring serious military crimes to trial.

In 2016, for the first time in more than two decades, NYC counted fewer than 1,100 shootings in a calendar year, a milestone that officials said was a result of the Police Department's efforts to focus on serious crimes and mend relationships with the communities it serves.

The move is expected to go further than recommended, according to media reports, and includes crimes beyond murder, rape and other serious sexual crimes.

Prisoners who committed serious sexual or violent crimes will have to serve at least two - thirds of their sentences before being eligible for parole, rather than half their sentences as is the case at present.

In the past decade, more than 30 current or former state officeholders in New York have been convicted of crimes, sanctioned or otherwise accused of serious wrongdoing.

This latest plan, unveiled less than a month before the one - year mark of Eric Garner's death and one week before a video of a cop punching a Harlem man made the news, will likely seek to achieve two things: to create a larger pool of informants, and to utilize public complaints to argue that Bratton's Broken Windows theory — the aggressive policing of low - level offenses to deter more serious crime — is what New Yorkers still want.

If someone has committed a serious crime, most people agree that they should be punished more harshly than if they had committed only a minor misdemeanour.

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.

In previous studies, the researchers showed that CPC program participants have attained higher incomes, and experienced lower rates of serious crime, incarceration, and depression than participants of other programs.

GUARDIAN.CO.UK - Sep 28 - More than 200K people in Britain may have been conned by fraudsters posing as would - be romantic partners on dating sites, according a study by the universities of Leicester and Westminster, working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

Despite all of this, Detective Pikachu is still back and forth on who it is trying to appeal to: it isn't quite a serious crime drama, but it's much more than a kid's game.

A more serious consideration of a woman gradually coming to terms with untying the knot, Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere starts slowly (I don't need 10 minutes of medium close - ups of more - than - promising newcomer Emayatzy E. Corinealdi to convince me that she's a beautiful black woman) but comes into focus as Corinealdi's Ruby gradually begins to question her responsibility to her husband who's doing hard time for an unspecified crime.

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.

Simple enough, except one did not want to be in Postville when a call came in of a serious crime in North Buena Vista: The distance between them via the best route was more than 60 miles, and a half hour response time was out of the question.

While anytime you are traveling abroad you should always be aware of your surroundings and exercise caution, Isla Mujeres is a small island that is for the most part free of any crime more serious than petty theft.

He still thought these were serious crimes and that the people who he had prosecuted deserved to go to prison, but things were a little more nuanced than they seemed at first glance.

More than half identify global warming as very serious, and 23 % ranked it «extremely serious,» after crime, the economy, and healthcare costs.

We ask the reporters and activists who were fooled by Gleick's lies and who used the documents he stole and may have forged to attack The Heartland Institute, rather than come to our defense as the victim of a serious crime, to revisit their decisions and cover the story again, this time honestly.

Rather than celebrating its status as # 1m - a-head revenue generators, the SFO should perhaps be actively piercing the corporate veil in serious fraud to get to the men and women responsible for committing serious crime involving millions of pounds.

My very quick perusal of the New Jersey criminal statutes tells me the potential crime being investigated likely couldn't be anything more serious than harassment.

It merely condones a type of triage that preserves resources for the most serious crimes, rather than shoring up the public defenders» program with more funding.

For example, the AG suggests that the EU legislature should have provided a more precise description than «serious crime» [126] or subjected access to the data to oversight by judicial authorities or an independent body [127].

Does it really tell us that crime is down, or does it simply tell us that in some communities, reporting of serious crime is low, and in some, much lower than others?

As one lawyer (among many lawyers) who has made these points repeatedly on behalf many defendants who seem much more deserving of sympathy than Mr. Libby — such as decorated veteran Victor Rita who just had his 33 month sentence affirmed by the Supreme Court for crimes seemingly much less serious than Libby's — I suppose I am pleased to see President Bush demonstrate compassionate conservativism for Libby.

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.

Usually, a criminal defense lawyer works to either exploit prosecution mistakes or lack of knowledge that prevent the prosecution from proving that guilt, or work to make sure that the defendant is not convicted of a more serious crime than the one committed, and / or work to see to it that their client does not receive an unnecessarily harsh sentence when alternatives are available.

Norm Pattis is veteran of more than 100 successful jury trials, many resulting in acquittals for people charged with serious crimes, multi million dollar civil rights and discrimination verdicts, and successful criminal appeals.

These offenses are more serious than petty infractions, which carry no possible term of imprisonment, but less serious than other misdemeanor crimes.

Generally speaking, except for serious crimes which the law punishes with capital punishment, life imprisonment, and imprisonment for more than three years, a defendant can request the prosecutor to initiate a plea bargaining procedure for negotiating the scope of the sentence with the prior consent of the court.

With more than eight years» experience in the fields of serious crime, business crime and fraud, regulatory matters and commercial litigation, Robert has in - depth expertise to assist a wide range of clients.

Crimes that reach the felony level will always be more serious than misdemeanors in terms of jail time.

The aggressive nature of the crime makes it more serious than theft.

The exclusion of those who have committed serious crimes may support a number of subsidiary rationales: prevent people fleeing from justice; prevent dangerous and particularly undeserving people from entering the host country; preserve the integrity and legitimacy of the refugee protection system, and, hence, the necessary public support for its viability; deter states from exporting criminals by pardoning them or imposing disproportionately lenient sentences while supporting their departure elsewhere as refugees; allow states to reduce the danger to their society from all serious criminality cases taken together, given the difficult task and potential for error when attempting to determine whether criminals from abroad (on whom they have more limited sources of information than on domestic criminals) are no longer dangerous.

The language in question dates from when «felony» denoted a much more serious class of crimes than it does today; traditionally, «felony» essentially meant «capital 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.

In fact, less than one per cent of NCR individuals go on to commit a serious violent crime once back in the community.

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«Suspicion» in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, s 330 has been interpreted to mean that a bank will be required to make a disclosure wherever it, subjectively, forms a settled view that there is a more than fanciful possibility that the relevant facts which give rise to the suspicion of money laundering exist (see K Ltd v National Westminster Bank plc (Revenue and Cutoms Prosecution Office and Serious Crime Agency intervening)[2006] EWCA Civ 1039, [2006] All ER (D) 269 (Jul)-RRB-.

For example, serious crimes like a hit and run, or a DUI warrant more points than simple offenses such as speeding or a traffic ticket.

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

While most children who exhibit poor conduct right themselves rather than embark on a life of crime, those who do become chronic offenders typically follow well - worn pathways toward increasingly serious criminality.

At 24 - month follow - up, MDFT showed greater maintenance of treatment gains than AGT for externalizing symptoms, commission of serious crimes, and felony arrests.

One of the reasons for this is that participants are less likely to report serious stigmatizing crimes, such as assault and hitting a spouse or partner than minor delinquency (Babinski et al. 2001).

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.»