Sentence examples for perpetrators reason from inspiring English sources

The stiff legal penalties imposed by those seeking to curtail street violence may lead only to an increase in violence as perpetrators reason they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Today, with the identification of the two men, a whole lot of theories about the alleged perpetrators and the reason for the attack were proven wrong.

He did it for whatever reasons perpetrators normally have for stalking, harassing, and violating others.

Indeed, were the passage of time and the age of the perpetrators used as a reason for non-prosecution it would signal the genocidaires at work today that all they need to do is keep their heads down for long enough and they will escape retribution.

Such "honour killings" are in fact violations of both civil and Islamic law, but perpetrators frequently use religious reasons to defend their actions, thereby giving the crime a veneer of justification.

Sectarian hatreds are not only increasing the brutality of torture but also giving Syrians and Iraqis a reason to excuse the perpetrators -- as long as the perpetrator belongs to their own sect.

Jealousy of the perpetrator is a universally cited reason given by victims for why their male partner battered them.

"I fear he will say: 'Now, my brother is not a man.'" It is for this reason that both perpetrator and victim enter a conspiracy of silence and why male survivors often find, once their story is discovered, that they lose the support and comfort of those around them.

It could be the reason that a perpetrator is able to find you.

Lucy Caldwell of the Fairfax County Police told the station that one reason for the perpetrator's success could be because of the rarity of the crime.

But there is plenty of gratuitous police violence, and one big reason is that the perpetrators usually get away with it.