Sentence examples for criminal classification from inspiring English sources
In 1996 the state legislature upped the criminal classification for dog fighting and other willful forms of animal cruelty from a misdemeanor to a felony.
You target legal highs, the ones that elude criminal classification in a market that shape-shifts quicker than Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
When asked about the two condom cases, Chakian said it was impossible to say if they can be framed under the new criminal classification, adding that each would have to be carefully assessed.
Statewide, for example, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 47, which will significantly reduce sentences and relax criminal classifications related to minor drug offenses and comparable petty crimes.
One of the city's big weaknesses was tolerating a system where for years detectives had got away with filing rape cases under a non-criminal classification code that was the equivalent of sweeping them under the carpet.
Compared to the less than 1% identified by criminal background checks, this classification methodology has the potential of substantially increasing a child service organization's ability to identify individuals who have the highest probability of having sexually abused children in the past and are concealing from the organization they are attempting to join.
According to the operating consensus, the American public has no right to know what the CIA is up to, even when what it's up to is extremely questionable in terms of dealing with our officially proclaimed enemies; and liberating such data from the crypt called classification is criminal behavior.
Crime, délit, and contravention, three classifications of criminal offense that are central to the administration of justice in many Roman- and civil-law countries (for distinctions in Anglo-American law covering analogous offenses, see felony and misdemeanour).
The application of formal crime classifications to criminal events necessarily entails a massive loss of information.
Because governments formulate criminal and social policies based upon classifications of harm, a new study published by the Lancet on November 1st makes interesting reading.
