Sentence examples for target for crime from inspiring English sources

That was dangerous enough, said his friends, who worried that anyone driving around with a lot of cash would be a prime target for crime.

With their black dastar headgear and their neat but untrimmed beards, they stood out from the Muslim crowd, and became an easily identifiable target for crime and harassment.

Match fixing is said to be rampant in Asia, where lax regulation combined with a huge betting market have made football a prime target for crime syndicates.

The idea has raised concern that clearly marking vehicles as belonging to tourists could make them a target for crime such as burglaries, and dissuade tourists from visiting the country.

The National Youth Theatre has also devised a play highlighting the risk of becoming a target for crime, which it will perform at schools across the country during the week.

"By passing on damaging secrets to Spain," the columnist Kim Sengupta wrote in The Independent, "Mr. Litvinenko would have become a target for crime bosses who would have been able to use government agents to silence him".

Homeless youths are in need of nurturing, they are easy targets for crime and abuse, and some are prone to commit crimes.

Gangs had overrun his home town in Mexico, and deportees were prime targets for crime, since they were presumed to have money.

This later shrank to seven matches, involving five clubs from Albania, Latvia, Slovenia and Hungary.Declan Hill, author of a book on soccer and organised crime, says obscure teams are easy targets for crime gangs working on behalf of big betting syndicates, chiefly in Asia.

The Home Office's targets for crime reduction which had originally only specified a 30% cut in vehicle crime over five years—have been extended to include a decline in domestic burglary by 25% and a 14% cut in robbery in big cities by 2005.A feature of the new set of PSAs is that some include "floor targets"—a decision which Gordon Brown, the chancellor, claims is a "definitive shift".

Secondly, users of transit systems may be frequently exposed to situations whereby they are more susceptible to become targets for crime.