Sentence examples for repeat crimes from inspiring English sources

As a constant reminder that the government is watching, G.P.S. monitoring may discourage repeat crimes.

DENVER -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an ambitious program offering legal intervention on behalf of veterans with arrest records, an effort aimed at preventing repeat crimes among service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Data show that teen-age criminals are most likely to repeat crimes, Mr. Reinharz said, yet under current New York law an 11-year-old convicted of murder would be sentenced to a maximum of 18 months.

Under the terms of Proposition 184, offenders with one or two violent or serious felonies on their records would get much longer sentences for second or third felony crimes—in the case of a third “strike,” a term of 25 years to life; moreover, these repeat crimes did not have to be violent or serious to qualify as a strike.

The monitoring systems cost money at a time when recession-strapped states can ill afford the extra expense, the critics say, and their effectiveness is dubious: Sex offender registries, for example, have had little success in reducing repeat crimes, studies suggest.

He concluded the letter by saying: "Because repeat crimes are the rule rather than the exception among animal abusers and given the malicious nature of these crimes, I implore you to take every measure necessary, including re-examining all available CCTV footage, to apprehend this dangerous criminal.

"We need to ensure that the treadmill, this dismal cycle of repeat crime, is stopped," Clegg said.

"We said we were going to pioneer a rehabilitation revolution to stop this downward spiral of repeat crime.

"We have thousands upon thousands of victims who are needlessly hurt because we have failed as a country to stop the cycle of repeat crime.

Despite the prevalence of pro-victim rhetoric during the prison-building era, few policymakers have asked themselves who experiences crime, who is most vulnerable to repeat crime or what survivors need to recover and avoid future harm.

"If we want to stop for good the outbreak of crime, of looting and criminality, of what we saw last week, we need to get tough on the causes of repeat crime".