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

"Absolutely, people who commit crime should go through the judicial system," she says.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 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

While studies suggest immigrants are less likely to commit crime than people born in the U.S.,

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Call the prison by any name you please, yet prisons of some sort we must have so long as men commit crime; and that from present indications will be for many generations to come.

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott