The phrase "criminal cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to the reason or justification for a criminal act or the underlying issue that led to criminal behavior.
Example: "The investigation revealed a criminal cause behind the recent surge in thefts in the neighborhood."
Alternatives: "criminal motivation" or "criminal rationale."
The port authority and the coastguard may be involved, but first the police need to eliminate a criminal cause or culpability.
ON fare-beating, the criminal cause and commercial activity around which his life found meaning, Alan Campbell speaks softly, almost monkishly.
Meanwhile, the medical examiner confirmed in his report that there was no criminal cause of death and that doctors exerted all efforts to treatment the child but without any use.
"Dealing with them is important in order to reassure the wider public that measures are being put in place to address behaviours that, even if not criminal, cause anxiety and disruption to everyday life.
There, at oral argument, Attorney General Charles Lee argued, in the alternative, that the case was a "criminal cause" and therefore "should never have been removed to the Circuit Court, the judgment of the District Court being final in criminal causes".
But so far, the safety board has not handed the case over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has said there is no evidence yet that anything criminal caused the disaster that killed 260 passengers and crew and 5 people on the ground in Belle Harbor, Queens.
For example, even if punishment of a criminal causes pain, a consequentialist can hold that a world with both the crime and the punishment is better than a world with the crime but not the punishment, perhaps because the former contains more justice.
Using a 2% discount rate, the study found that the typical career criminal causes AUD 1.98 2.2 M in external costs, a heavy drug user AUD 0.6 1.48 M and a high-school dropout AUD 0.4 0.6 M over their lifetime.
"Leaving the drugs market in the hands of criminals causes huge and unnecessary harms to individuals, communities and entire countries, with the poor the hardest hit," he said.
"Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians".
Most miners in California avoided violence, but the relatively small number of criminals caused much trouble before honest government was established.
