In 1988, Congress added language to the existing statutes governing mail and wire fraud, which are considered a crime if an individual undertakes a "scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest service".
(Many of the lynchings in the South during the Jim Crow era were undertaken to avenge a crime that the mob, confirmed in its rage by the local press, felt certain had taken place).
If the action is undertaken to prevent a crime, Section 3 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 permits it assuming that it is "reasonable under the circumstances".
He reproached Chabrol, whose 1960 crime drama "Les Bonnes Femmes" had flopped, for failing "to imagine how Hitchcock would have undertaken a film like 'Les Bonnes Femmes' " — namely, as "The Shopgirls Vanish".
McLellan and James W. Cornish undertook a study comparing punishment in conjunction with treatment to stricter punish without treatment, to see which was more effective in reducing crime.
It is a concern for him, but Danish law prohibits investigations being undertaken as part of a crime prevention program and Aarslev's priority is that the travelers don't commit crimes on home soil.
The plain fact that the American war in Vietnam was a mistake and a crime – because it was undertaken so lightly, pursued so brutally and abandoned so perfidiously – is about the only plain fact there is.
It is still perhaps the longest homicide investigation ever undertaken, crime experts say, as well as one of the most expensive: In 2003 alone, the investigation has cost $9.3 million, officials say.
One of Mr. Bashir's first actions after the arrest warrant was to undertake yet another crime against humanity: He expelled major international aid groups, including the International Rescue Committee and the Dutch section of Doctors Without Borders.
"National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33) – the 'noble experiment' – was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.
It's also a plain-old crime, undertaken by a government that fancies itself the world's next superpower but acts like a giant thievery corporation".
