Voorbeelden van crime wave

• Yet there are people who still maintain that the crime wave is on the wane. 

• Their priority was not to protect local communities from either the occupying forces or the post-war crime wave fed by hyperinflation and generalised penury.

• Perhaps reflecting the deleterious effects of the crime wave, the image of the judiciary did not improve in the years immediately following the war.

• Indeed, the transaction costs of demilitarisation heightened the post-war crime wave.

• Viewed in this way, the truism that a crime wave was the cause of legislative activism on penal reform becomes problematic.

• Critics used the new laws as a convenient scapegoat and a distraction from the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and other factors in the crime wave.

• Throughout the 1870s, the condition of the kingdom deteriorated, as food shortages and inflation incited popular revolts and a crime wave of dacoity which the authorities proved powerless to quell.

• While they take such perceptions seriously, their prime concern is not with the much-touted crime wave, but rather with strengthening the rule of law (p. 3).

• Was not this rather an odd operation at a time when the police are facing a mounting crime wave?

• But the physical facts of the present situation, as a result of this same crime wave, make lamentable reading.

• Does he realise that we are in the middle of the greatest crime wave of the century?

• All those matters would not dramatically reduce the crime wave, but they would enhance the vital links between the police and the public.

• While the shortage of police is not the cause of the crime wave, it is a great obstacle to dealing with it.

• It is not responsible for the crime wave.

• We know only too well of the crime wave in this country.

• I want to deal with this extraordinary business about the crime wave.