What, however, is undeniable is the level of crime reported in the different states.
More than the level of crime, it is the sheer gratuitousness of the violence that is shocking.
The overall level of crime recorded by the police dropped to 3.9 million in the 12 months to June.
They conceded that economic factors might have a bearing on crime and conceded that economic downturns do indeed lead to rises in the level of crime.
Mr Straw said that the accounting changes were introduced, on police recommendation, in order to produce a more accurate picture of the true level of crime.
On mandatory sentencing, I live in Western Australia where we were so fed up with the level of crime and the pathetic sentences handed out that a regulation requiring a prison sentence for a third instance of breaking and entering was forced on parliament.
To Britons, and to many Americans, the most frightening aspect of urban America is the high level of gun crime.
There was also a 1% increase in robberies, but a 2% fall in recorded sexual offences and there was no change in the level of violent crime recorded.
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But even today the level of violent crime in America is still about the same as in the mid-1980s, when 1m fewer people were in prison or jail.
He said these included commitments to reduce the level of serious crime, using more effective and appropriate sentences to tackle crime against older and vulnerable people, and improving community safety.
Not only is pregnancy not evidentiary of rape, it could not even rise to the level of creating a presumption of a crime.
There is an important precedent for the view that in certain circumstances offenses of the sort alleged here may not rise to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor.
As one of nine Democrats who joined the Republicans in voting against this article of impeachment in the Nixon case, I did not believe that in the circumstances of that case it rose to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor, I did not believe it was conduct against which the Founding Fathers intended the Congress to invoke the impeachment remedy.
As the level of intrusiveness goes up, the amount of white collar crime should go down.
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"Only the SNP can be trusted to keep the record numbers of police officers we now have in Scotland, who have helped drive crime down to its lowest level in 32 years, including a reduction in knife crime of 30%, " he said.
In the fight against organised crime "the level of sentences remains low" it said, regretting that that was also the case in corruption cases, where "very often suspended sentences are pronounced".
There has been a shift in personnel both at the level of the Enron Task Force--part of the bigger white collar crime task force--and at higher levels of the Justice Department.
The prevalence of economic crime reported was level with 2005 results but up six percentage points from 2003.
But the court ruled that the defendants should be remanded in custody owing to the level of suspicion and the nature of the crime.
The pilot has been targeted at those guilty of so-called low-level crime.
Each type of crime is assigned a "base offense level, " which is the starting point for determining the seriousness of a particular offense.
It is personal experience that matters most in assessing crime at the local level, where fear of it has fallen most.
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Corporate crime at the C-level is an act of opportunity and hubris.
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Mr MacAskill retorted that crime in Scotland was now at its lowest level in 35 years, the clear-up rate for all recorded crimes was at its highest level for over 30 years and that the risk of being a victim of crime in Scotland is lower than in England and Wales.
By 1993, the violent crime rate was more than four and a half times the level of 1960.
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The Scottish government has said recorded crime is down to its lowest level in 37 years, with the number of people caught carrying offensive weapons down to its lowest level in 10 years.
We may be better angels now than before, and we may be too distracted enough by cheap entertainment to avoid a life of crime, but we are still failing one another on a very basic level in not just our criminal justice system, but our public education system and our basic social contract.
On one hand, Kumar is claiming that he committed a crime by disclosing inside information and on the other he is destroying information that illustrates a level of integrity.
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