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Crime in sentence

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And I discovered that I could be successful in life as an actor, without doing crime, without cheating nobody, without telling no lies.
Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the best-known works of Russian literature: "Crime and Punishment."
"Crime and Punishment" was conceived and completed the following year, picking up on many of the same themes.
Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing, with each character given their own distinctive and convincing voice.
One of the most remarkable things about "Crime and Punishment" is its ability to thrill despite the details of the central murder being revealed in the first act.
Raskolnikov’s crime is clear.
Our existence is being interpreted as crime.
Crime is a thing, should be reported, but ask yourself, do we need armed men to show up and resolve this situation, because when they show up for me, it's different.
So in Stockton, as I mentioned, we have historically had problems with violent crime.
And last year, we saw a 40 percent reduction in homicides and a 30 percent reduction in violent crime.
I have constituent emails in my phone now, about the homelessness issue, about some of the violent crime we're still experiencing.
The cold, hard face of the judge as she pronounced my sentence on a cold Thursday morning for a crime that I hadn't committed.
As I listened to story after story of these close to 700 women during that one year in prison, I soon realized that crime was not what had brought these women to prison, most of them, far from it.
Developers around the world have come up with an amazing variety of ways to layer useful data on top of the maps, from bus routes and crime statistics to the global progress of avian flu.
These I got in a place called Bournemouth, England, about two hours south of London, and I'm the only person in the United States with these, which is a crime because they are so beautiful.
We spend billions to detain people in what are virtually prisons who have committed no crime.
Rural America has now jumped above the national average in violent crime.
There was a huge amount of crime.
Now it's going to take the will, the will of our society to look at something that is really hard to look at, to take something out of the darkness so these kids have a voice; the will of companies to take action and make sure that their platforms are not complicit in the abuse of a child; the will of governments to invest with their law enforcement for the tools they need to investigate a digital first crime, even when the victims cannot speak for themselves.
I mean, think about it: here she was, the recent victim of a crime, with the very people who were supposed to help her, and they were demanding a bribe from her.
All of this sounds like a weird crime story, but it's true.
The US and other countries have made it a crime to save lives, and those of us who are simply trying to do our jobs are being forced to choose between our humanity and our freedom.
And we recognize that need for police officers who've witnessed a gruesome crime scene and nurses who have lost a patient.
Crime rates dropped, because the streets were alive with people.
Asked later in the Canadian documentary, "The Corporation," what I meant by the "go to jail" remark, I offered that theft is a crime.
And theft of our children's future would someday be a crime.
And if these are cities governed by good rules, they can be cities where people are safe from crime, safe from disease and bad sanitation, where people have a chance to get a job.
Well, maybe counterfeiting is a victimless crime?
What the tourist on holiday doesn't see about those fake handbags is they may well have been stitched together by a child who was trafficked away from her family, and what the car repair shop owner doesn't realize about those fake brake pads is they may well be lining the pockets of an organized crime gang involved in drugs and prostitution.
And this quick, easy money then goes on to fund the more serious types of crime, and it pays the way to making these organizations, these criminal organizations, look more legitimate.
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