Sentence examples for ritual crimes from inspiring English sources

Properly, male circumcision should be categorised with a host of ritual crimes against children, including facial scarring and forced marriage, force-feeding and tooth extraction, which are usually summarised as harmful traditional practices and suppressed, whatever the religious or cultural arguments.

In 2009, I went to a "Ritual Abuse/Mind-Control" conference in Connecticut where I listened to "experts" elaborate upon their beliefs in Satanic Ritual crimes.

Other experts, including Dr Richard Hoskins, a researcher in ritual crimes, suggest that children being subjected to exorcisms are actually being failed by those charged with protecting them, namely the police and social services.

Other experts, including Dr. Richard Hoskins, a researcher in ritual crimes, suggest that children being subjected to exorcisms are actually being failed by those charged with protecting them, namely the police and social services.

But when Suzy Park, the heroine of Suki Kim's 2002 novel The Interpreter, is thought to harbour "more secrets than befits the average 29-year-old", and Flea Marley, star of Mo Hayder's otherwise excellent forthcoming crime novel Ritual, is described as "feeling every inch of her 29 years", I'm mystified as to what those statements mean.

You see so much fetishization of the maniacal rituals often associated with crimes like serial murder, but so often works of art made in their image lack any kind of meticulous artifice themselves, relying instead on gore and putridity to drive the feeling home.

It had more in common with the promotion rituals of organized crime than with democratic politics.

In Jewish law, ritual and nonritual transgressions were crimes punishable by court.

According to the official report, the crimes were pledging rituals of Sigma Alpha Equinox.

beheading or to be broken on the wheel were not regarded as sufficiently commensurate to their crimes, and extended rituals of execution that might include impalement were devised.

Most Bad Apple plot devices don't work in urban California: escaping into a New York City crowd (Death Wish) or disguising ritual killings as random street crime (The Hunger).