Sentence examples for sustained crime from inspiring English sources

Despite the widely held perception of a sustained crime wave, the government says that after doubling from 2000 to 2009, the number of reported cases of violent crime nationwide has declined sharply since then.

Sustained crime falls across a wide array of offences began in the United States in the early 1980s and in many other countries from the early 1990s.

There are many thorny issues to resolve before we can arrive at a judicious (if symbolic) gesture to match such a sustained, heinous crime.

How Chinese mining companies sustain organized crime in Mexico.

But it would be nice to see the United States drop down from fifth place among the capital punishers to a place among nations that do not execute the guilty (or the innocent) and still sustain lower crime rates than does the United States.

The sustained reduction in crime figures does not show the whole picture, he explained.

Andrew Caplen, who took charge of the UK's largest professional legal organisation this month, is urging the MoJ to recognise it is already spending far less than anticipated thanks to a sustained fall in crime rates.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) insists it is around £2bn; lawyers say it is far less and that sustained falls in crime will deliver sufficient savings without the need for another £215m in cuts.

"Concentrated and sustained poverty drive crime".

Many have been victims of serious crime and sustained abuse.

Violent crime has sustained drama for centuries, tapping into our fascination with human nature's sinister side.