Sentence examples for harsh criminal from inspiring English sources

What explains whites' preference for harsh criminal laws?

Increasingly harsh criminal penalties have failed to protect young people from the dangers of drug addiction.

Governor Rockefeller's national political aspirations may have helped to move him toward harsh criminal penalties.

The author of a virus certainly does, and is subject to harsh criminal penalties in most countries.

The addictive nature of drugs – an obvious point – is also the reason why harsh criminal penalties are ineffective.

Critics say it has authoritarian aspects: limitations on civil liberties; harsh criminal penalties; insufficient multiparty competition; and a judiciary that is not fully independent.

The decline in support for the death penalty, they said, is part of a decline in support for harsh criminal-justice policies over all.

If the death is tried as a hate crime, it could carry harsher criminal sentences.

This is the harshest criminal penalty for abortion anywhere in Europe.

Amnesty International said it was shameful that laws on abortion "date back to the 19th century and carry the harshest criminal penalties in Europe".

Anti-abortion activists have criticised the sentence as unduly lenient and pointed out that life imprisonment is a possible alternative under legislation in Northern Ireland, which has the harshest criminal penalty for abortion anywhere in Europe.