Sentence examples for criminal wrong from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, they seem to misrepresent what it is about crime that makes it deserving of punishment: what makes murder, or rape, or theft, or assault a criminal wrong, deserving of punishment, is surely the wrongful harm that it does to the individual victim not (as on this kind of account) the supposed unfair advantage that the criminal takes over all those who obey the law.

I don't think Bernie Ebbers is capable of committing any criminal wrong.

New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman held up the negotiations until the banks agreed to give prosecutors and regulators the right to investigate certain aspects of the housing bubble, including allegations of criminal wrong doing.

Now it is a familiar and disturbing truth that our existing criminal processes both in their structure and in their actual operations tend to preclude any effective participation by either victims or offenders, although an adequate response to the criminal wrong that was done should surely involve them both.

In English Law, for example, until the position was recently changed by statute, a thief had, in certain special circumstances, the legal power to pass good title in the goods he had stolen to a third party, even though by doing so he committed a civil, and possibly also a criminal, wrong.

"There is a criminal wrong that needs to be addressed here".

Describes the federal guidelines used by judges for sentencing organizations convicted of criminal wrong-doing under U.S. law as of November 1 , 1991

Mr Bryant, a former member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee who was instrumental in helping expose criminal wrong-doing inside Mr Murdoch's News of the World, told the Chancellor he would also be sending a Freedom of Information Act request to the Treasury.

Winnick who earned at least $700 million from his sales of Global Crossing stock was never charged with any criminal wrong-doing; the SEC staff wanted to pursue civil charges over the company's accounting practices but they were overruled by SEC commissioners.

Hamlet (murder), Oliver Twist (burglary, pickpocketing, fencing, prostitution and murder), The Wind in the Willows (cheeking the police – for which Mr Toad receives fifteen years in jail), and a huge number of other stories, show a marked fascination with criminal wrong-doing.

I distinguish two kinds of criminal wrongs.