Criminal in sentence

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We don't have orphanages in Australia, the USA, the UK anymore, and for a very good reason: one study has shown that young adults raised in institutions are 10 times more likely to fall into sex work than their peers, 40 times more likely to have a criminal record, and 500 times more likely to take their own lives.

They know every trick and every hideout, so now troublemakers are more likely to get caught and reported to police and fewer of the youth end up engaging in criminal activity.

Human trafficking and slavery is a criminal offense.

And so her lawyers and I asked Lily, did she want to press criminal charges for what had happened to her.

So in the United States, for example, an angry black man is viewed as a criminal, but an angry white man has civic virtue.

Most whites had claimed and subsequently reported that lynchings were responses to criminal acts by Black people.

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” she redeems an insufferable grandmother for forgiving a hardened criminal, even as he closes in on her family.

Here, the Department of Justice are also looking into the market for car parts, and it has called it the biggest criminal investigation it has ever pursued.

There are many cases, some of which I talk about in the book, of people who have been slandered, called Nazis, physically assaulted, threatened with criminal prosecution for stumbling across or arguing about controversial findings.

But it also gives them an opportunity to share something with the court that goes beyond their criminal record and their charges.

After sitting comfortably for seven months as a traffic court judge, I was advised that I was being moved to the criminal court, Part Two, criminal courtroom.

Part Two criminal courtroom.

As long as the current assumptions hold that this is criminal, this is shadow, this is illegal, there will be no attempt at integrating the informal economic ecosystem with the formal or even the global one.

For the last six years, my colleagues and I have been doing research that has completely changed the way we think about the criminal justice system and the people in it.

So I'll start with a shocking statistic: 50 to 80 percent of people in criminal justice have a traumatic brain injury.

All of these numbers are even higher among the women in criminal justice.

Almost every single woman in the criminal justice system has been exposed to interpersonal violence and abuse.

They have cognitive impairments like poor judgment and poor impulse control, problems that make criminal justice a revolving door.

This program shows us the overwhelming prevalence of traumatic brain injuries and cognitive deficits and the accumulation of brokenness in the criminal justice system.

It had started with the education system, whose supply and quality is not equal for all; lack of economic opportunities that pushes these women to petty survival crimes; the health system, social justice system, the criminal justice system.

I never thought that one day I would be giving stories of the injustices that are so common within the criminal justice system, but here I am.

I come as one, but I stand as 10,000, encouraged by the hard-edged hope that thousands of us have come together to reform and transform the criminal justice system, encouraged that we are doing our jobs as we are meant to do them.

Other people are also deciding on whether your race and ethnicity is enough to consider you a criminal, or if your religion and nationality is enough to put you on a terrorist list.

And I almost decided to reject the project because you feel as a criminal to do anything there.

I don't want to become a criminal.

Now, Anna didn't have a criminal record, and she followed the law when asking for asylum.

Because it's civil and not criminal detention, there is no public defender system, so most detained immigrants are not going to have an attorney to help them with their cases.

These refugees, many of whom are families, are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups.

This past June, Amber emailed me with the news that Michigan's attorney general dropped all criminal charges in the Flint Water Crisis investigation, where eight state and city employees were facing charges as serious as manslaughter.

(Speaks Spanish) This year at an event called El Foro Penal, which is a criminal forum where a group of lawyers do pro bono work for Venezuelan political prisoners, a young woman approached me and she said, "I was imprisoned, and then you drew my face and my story.

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