It seems that everyone has either been the victim of a violent crime or knows someone who has.
Fully 18% of whites aged 10 to 25 admitted to a violent crime, and 15% said they had committed a theft.
Being the victim of a violent crime, like rape, allows one to have an abortion even though Romney also believes abortion is infanticide?
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Martinez pleaded guilty to a number of felonies including solicitation of a violent crime, interstate commerce in murder for hire, witness tampering and mail fraud.
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Ministers say they want a debate on what makes a violent crime because some of the offences currently classed as violent do not involve injuries.
Under this amendment, victims of a violent crime would have to be notified of judicial proceedings, could attend all public proceedings and would be allowed to be heard at judicial hearings on such critical issues as bail, plea bargaining and sentencing.
In freeing the Kalpoes from jail November 30, judges from Aruba's Court of Appeal wrote that there was no evidence Holloway died as a result of a violent crime against her or that the suspects were involved in such a crime.
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He plans to reverse a rise in violent crime with a thorough overhaul of the police, almost to double spending on education and to cut the proportion of Dominicans in poverty from 34% to around 20%.
This does not indicate a violent-crime problem: in the South Bronx, only 3% of convictions are for felonies.
Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.
In the context of probation, how much reward, if any, should a contractor get if an offender with a history of violent crime commits no offences of violence while supervised, but steals a chocolate bar from Tesco's?
While South Wales topped the table with a 16.9% drop in crime, the figures revealed a steep rise in violent crime, threatening to overshadow the government's bid to emphasise its tough approach to law and order.
Miami still has a staggeringly high violent crime rate (seventh worst in the U.S.), but it also benefitted from a recovering housing market with home prices up 11% in 2012.
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Subsequently, a surge in violent crime, the slow pace of reconstruction, and the burgeoning corruption scandal at city hall undermined his popularity.
They say there is a history of violent crime near both lay-bys.
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As a single woman she has been threatened by neighborhood drug dealers in a city where violent crime rates are on the rise.
We will make sure mental health professionals know their options for reporting threats of violence -- even as we acknowledge that someone with a mental illness is far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.
It may sound fanciful, but a growing body of evidence seems to suggest there may be a link between violent crime and - no, not policing strategy, or sentencing reform, or even trends in drug abuse, but - exposure to lead.
Also, Belize has a problem with violent crime, much of it drug-related, and the trafficking of narcotics to the US. In 2011 Belize was added to a US blacklist of countries considered to be major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
The vast majority of prisoners in any country are not violent criminals or dangerous psychopaths, but young men who have committed a non-violent property crime, or got into some relatively minor scrape with the law.
The researchers looked at a variety of crimes - from petty crime to violent crime, finding a reduction in all of these when people took medication.
Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime.
Skeptics might point to the federal assault weapons ban (a section of the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act) that Congress let expire in 2004 as a failure that did not affect overall homicide rates.
So perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised to find it plays a significant role in violent crime.
To be sure, there has been a sharp rise in violent crime, with well-armed drug-traffickers on the scene.
Of course, it is very tempting to attribute a precipitous rise in violent crime to recent police layoffs.
Honduras is a country racked by violent crime, poverty and political turmoil.
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