commit crime
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Their ability to produce realistic text, images, audio and video has prompted concern about their capacity to steal jobs, influence elections and commit crime.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said custody should be the last resort for children who commit crime and the number of girls in youth custody had decreased since 2015.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
“It just extends the power of police — not just over people who commit crime, but over everyone,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Studies by prison reform advocates and academics have shown that visitation and phone calls with loved ones decrease the likelihood that a person will commit crime again.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023
In operation it is absolutely fair, neither is any inducement offered to commit crime for the benefits which the trade-school confers.
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan
