Sentence examples for deter crimes from inspiring English sources

And, they added, "So what?" After all, the purpose of law enforcement is not simply to punish people for crimes they have committed, but to deter crimes that are being contemplated.

Correction: July 15 , 2000 Saturday An article on Thursday about Gov. George E. Pataki's signing of a law intended to deter crimes against cabdrivers misspelled the surname of a law professor at New York University who explained its significance.

The Texas A&M study finds no evidence that Stand Your Ground laws deter crimes: rates of burglary, robbery and aggravated assault are unaffected by the laws.

The increased police presence would by delivered via "wolfpack" teams between four and six officers that will ride trains as part of a highly visible effort to deter crimes, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Let us also believe in the ability of our justice system to do more than deter crimes- let us also work to restore equal and fair justice to a system that has for so long decimated the trust Americans place in the criminal justice system.

Steven Raphael, a public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley who co-authored the study, said it is consistent with other research that has found little evidence that stiffer sentences deter crimes "that already face tough prison sentences".

DOES the death penalty deter crime?

It doesn't deter crime.

What kind of sentences deter crime?

"The death penalty doesn't deter crime.

"Going to jail is what works to deter crime".