Sentence examples for crime mentality from inspiring English sources

This is exactly the "terrorism as crime" mentality that dominated counterterrorism policy in the years before the attacks on Sept. 11: to wait for an attack to occur and then start gathering evidence for a criminal prosecution.

This social conservatism and tough on crime mentality were central to Ronald Reagan's playbook.

He felt that the film was "about the city; it's about authority; it's about the mentality of crime; and it's about power…and payback".

Others have come directly from voters, who often bring a "crime-of-the-week mentality" to the ballot box, says Barry Krisberg, the president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a think-tank in Oakland.The result is a disaster, says Ms Petersilia.

In one of his most scathing comments, Mr. Barbosa, the high court's first and only black justice, took on the entire legal system of Brazil — where it is still remarkably rare for politicians to ever spend time in prison, even after being convicted of crimes — contending that the mentality of judges was "conservative, pro-status-quo and pro-impunity".

"In a way, it's very similar to the mentality of Organized Crime.

The American Mentality: Ideas of Crime and Punishment.

A highly underdeveloped infrastructure and stifling poverty led to heinous crime and the hillbilly "Bedouin" mentality of "you fucked my sister!

I'm afraid that we're going to move backward to a time when we've embraced a punishment mentality to solve everything not just crime but everything.

It also turns on the sensationalization of crimes via the media, but focuses on mob mentality rather than the voyeuristic impact of celebrity.

The lawyer also selected several classics "to help Snowden understand the mentality of the Russian people": Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, a collection of stories by Anton Chekhov, and writings by the historian Nikolai Karamzin.