Sentence examples for attributing crime from inspiring English sources

As the report explains, "attributing crime to racial minorities limits empathy toward offenders and encourages retribution".

Attributing crime reduction to "get tough" policing and mandatory sentencing policies, minor gun control legislation and baby boomers aging past their crime-prone years ignores one very important determinant of crime in the United States: improvements in economic opportunity.

"People can attribute crime to failing schools, failing families; there's a bunch of sociological things you can put your finger on," said Sgt. Rich Ring, supervisor of the city's homicide unit.

Sir Ian attributes crime and antisocial behaviour to three trends: declining influence of "the agencies of community cohesion" (churches, trade unions, housing associations), the disappearance of non-police "agents of social enforcement" (park-keepers, caretakers, bus conductors), and the closure of long-stay psychiatric institutions.

Probably influenced by the selective reporting of the mass media, the public and politicians are inclined to attribute crime and other negative consequences to new residents in cities.

In a letter posted on the elder Mr. Rafsanjani's Web site on Wednesday, the family said that "no one has the right to attribute crimes to a defendant who has not been sentenced in a competent court".

Lawyers from the Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic, white-shoe firms like Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, and D.C.'s Public Defender Service joined in the motion, which argued that the indictment had attributed crimes "collectively and indiscriminately" to defendants without offering evidence of individual culpability.

We have worked with the Cincinnati Police on a number of projects over many years and have found that they are diligent about coding crimes to precise locations and seldom attribute crimes to intersections when they occur within a block.

As Farrell (2013) observes, most of the crime drop hypotheses are crime generic, attributing changes in crime to changes in the number or motivation of offenders.

But, she wrote in an e-mail, "Trump is on less certain ground in attributing the crime increase to 'this administration's rollback of criminal enforcement'.

Offences were categorised in the appropriate categories in a fashion consistent with previous papers (Ignatans and Pease 2015a, 2015b) attributing all crimes that involve direct contact with the victim to the personal crime category, even where property was taken.