When they do, investors are reminded that the people best suited to monitor their money are themselves and managers see that failures of duty, or outright crimes, lead to dismissal, loss of reputation, or jail.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

Cases like that lead many to wonder what other crimes will go unpunished unless the tribunal is given sufficient independence to do its job properly.

CNN: Fragile Democracy on Trial

Professor Duff added getting rid of corroboration for some crimes only would lead to "first class and second class aquittals".

BBC: Justice Committee 2

The guidelines do not cover people who deliberately use dogs to attack because those incidents should lead to prosecutions for assault or more serious violent crimes.

BBC: Dangerous dogs sentencing guidelines proposed

Now, under the guidelines, different prosecutors make decisions that predictably lead to very different sentences for similar defendants' similar crimes.

CNN: Testing sentencing guidelines' constitutionality

In Part I of this series I postulated that crime does pay far better than historic accounts would lead you to believe because many of the largest financial crimes, occurring virtually daily, go unreported.

FORBES: How to Steal a Lot of Money: Part II in a Series

The prosecutor, for his part, called it outright cruelty, telling the court that animal cruelty is usually a precursor to crimes against humans and that treating it seriously early on could lead to the possibility of rehabilitation.

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Research by Sheffield University has indicated that setting the minimum price at 50p would lead to 60 fewer deaths, 1, 600 fewer hospital admissions and 3, 500 fewer crimes in its first year.

BBC: UK government to back Scotland on minimum alcohol pricing

The fatal beating and gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving New Delhi bus sparked outrage and spurred the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women, including the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim's death.

NPR: Condition Of Indian Girl Who Was Raped Improves