Sentence examples for deter offenses from inspiring English sources
A few years earlier, the N.B.A. had altered defensive guidelines to deter offenses from being able to clear out one side of the court in order to turn the game into a series of one-on-one matchups.
A hard-charger who preached zero tolerance (cracking down on minor offenses) and proactive policing (deterring crime before it happens), Johnson faced an already catastrophic erosion of trust between Flint's residents and its law enforcement.
There are less costly and more effective ways to deter nonviolent offenses, and the time to carry them out is now.
She's part of a broad coalition trying to change policies ranging from surveillance to " broken windows" policing, the philosophy that going after minor offenses will deter serious crime.
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, said, "You can look at the record and see that it clearly suggests this is not deterring repeat offenses.
They consisted of both big cases and smaller matters, often referred to as "broken windows" cases -a reference to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's strategy of policing minor offenses to deter bigger ones.
No one pretends that even the latest, toughest penalties — 80 games for a first offense, an entire season for a second offense — can deter every player.
Advocates expressed concern on Thursday about the mayor's continued embrace of "broken windows" policing -- the strategy of aggressively targeting low-level crimes as a means of deterring more serious offenses.
In a memo published on its website, the Crime's Lab Director argued that he expects HB2265's mandatory minimums to lead to more consistent, swift, and certain punishments for UUW offenses, deterring people from illegally carrying guns that would otherwise be used in shootings, thus reducing the number of people who are sent to prison and the costs of their incarceration.
Unless a judge finds such an exception, the law mandates a prison sentence to deter others from committing sexual offenses.
