On the criminal justice side, we hope to make punishment tough enough to discourage crime but not so tough as to clog our prisons with relatively minor offenders.

在刑事司法方面，我们希望使惩罚严厉到足以阻止犯罪，但不要严厉到让罪行相对较轻的罪犯都挤满我们的监狱。

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Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.

上周，立法者初步批准了一项法律，规定雇用过于瘦弱的模特走秀是犯罪行为。

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Crime, courts, jails — these make Keefe's journalistic heart beat fast indeed.

罪犯、法庭、监狱——这些确实让基夫的文章使人心跳加速。

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When crime scene investigators arrive at the place of a crime, they first try to make sure the area is secure.

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The group urged him and Congress to make mob violence a federal crime.

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But a new state law in Arizona will make it a crime.

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The old law was too tough, but the new one may make crime-fighting harder.

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One way to encourage more fine-tuning of policing to local conditions would be to make crime statistics more readily available.

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The sheer volume of notes that had to be stolen to make a crime lucrative was a deterrent.

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