anticrime

Examples

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• The city implemented new anticrime programs to ensure the safety of its residents.

• Military intelligence also continued to participate in anticrime efforts, particularly through a specialized antikidnapping force.

  Academic text (2000)

• Three other cars were stationed at various places around this part of Manhattan, so that if the guy slipped past the anticrime team that was setting up to make the grab and ran, there would be cars in position to block the escape.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Prisons and anticrime rhetoric are part of the myth of safety that tilts the ballot boxes.

  Academic text (2004)

• When the House Judiciary Committee was drafting a 1991 anticrime bill, the Congressional Quarterly reported that some members suggested resolving a dispute by putting compromise language into a committee report, which accompanies a bill to the floor.

  Academic text (1999)

• In 1995, task force leader David Rothman visited hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai, where he interviewed surgeons and administrators; he is among those convinced that what lies behind China's new anticrime campaign is a "thriving medical business that relies on prisoners' organs for raw materials."

  Academic text (1998)

• Community leaders discussed effective anticrime measures to tackle rising violence in their neighborhoods.

• The mayor launched a comprehensive anticrime initiative aimed at reducing drug-related offenses.

How Preventive

preventiveness

1 7.3

anticrime

• Formal

1 3.4

deterrent

7 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology