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Discover LudwigThe phrase "crime deterrent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing measures or strategies intended to prevent criminal activity.
Example: "The presence of security cameras acts as a crime deterrent in the neighborhood."
Alternatives: "crime prevention measure" or "criminal deterrent."
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This is a crime deterrent program, too".
Police officials defend the stops as an effective crime deterrent.
"It's always been our concern to be a crime deterrent," she said.
Pretrial detention is often justified as a crime deterrent, but Yang has found it actually has a criminogenic effect.
Advocates say there's no evidence that executions are any more of a crime deterrent than lesser punishments.
While pretrial detention is often justified as a crime deterrent, Yang and her colleagues found that it actually has a criminogenic effect.
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They also serve as crime deterrents, educators, and role models and it is possible that some participants intended for the increased police presence to serve in this way.
He may have been part of a plainclothes crime-deterrent detail in the precinct.
Clearly, social values should never count as evidence for or against a particular hypothesis — abhorrence of the death penalty does not count as data against its crime-deterrent effects.
As Italy's police Gallardos have demonstrated since reaching the force in 2004 and 2008, a siren-equipped supercar is a highly visible, undeniably effective crime-deterrent.
He went on, "Over the past ten years, we've been winning the war of attrition on crime, because the deterrent effect works.
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