Sentence examples for criminal environment from inspiring English sources

Professor Curran said the availability of guns, including semiautomatic weapons, had vastly changed the criminal environment over four decades.

A Jersey native and only child of Italian immigrants, The Sopranos is based on both Chase's psychology and knowledge of Newark, transposed on to a specific criminal environment.

So is FBI interrogator Jack Sheehan who spoke out early against torture and the criminal environment he saw developing under America's military watch.

The current Russian style of management is a mix of Soviet command-economy habits and the post-Soviet experience of doing business in an anarchic and often criminal environment.

As the United States debates whether to support the Obama administration's proposal that Syrian forces should be attacked for using chemical weapons against civilians, this video, shot in the spring of 2012, joins a growing body of evidence of an increasingly criminal environment populated by gangs of highwaymen, kidnappers and killers.

An EU report published in November concluded that "a broad change in the criminal environment has taken place over the past 10 years, with organised crime becoming less visibly violent and constituting less of a threat to the stability of society than in the past".

Madrinan described how kids in these "criminal environments" become tough, angry and difficult to manage and relate to.

We chose 25 students and matched them with agencies based on their interest in one of seven categories: education, local government, criminal justice, environment and sustainability, healthcare and health policy, neighborhood and community improvement, and women, children and family issues.

Tight operating budgets, heavy regulation of operating procedures, and intense public scrutiny of these systems add to the challenges of working in criminal justice environments.

These protocols are therefore testing whether facilitation or coaching of interorganizational change teams – strategies that have been used successfully in industry as well as in health care (Aarons et al. 2009; Loftus-Hills & Harvey 1999; Stetler et al. 2006) – can be adapted and deployed as effective implementation processes in criminal justice environments.

Similar discussions must happen about other rights and obligations, including those on security, the environment, criminal justice and local government.