Meanings of encourage crime in English

Getting the money to pay for the clothes can encourage crime.

If I wanted to design an environment to encourage crime then here's an ideal blueprint.

The worst feature of the whole thing, Mr. President, is that it will encourage crime.

Does load shedding encourage crime?

Not all Singaporeans were in the mood for compassion, with several arguing on websites the lighter sentences would encourage crime.

Wherever bad economic conditions either directly or indirectly encourage crime, the remedy is, of course, the relief or abolition of poverty.

It is unbelievable that the court should encourage crime by making repeated offences "cheaper by the dozen" while on bail.

Many authorities claim, however, that while bad economic conditions accompany and often encourage crime, such conditions alone are not a direct cause of crime.

The back streets were gloomy and dirty and encouraged crime.

Auckland Council urban planner Ludo Campbell-Reid said the generic design of a dairy inadvertently encourages crime.

Punishment hardens the criminal, pardon encourages crime, while the hearts of the offenders remain the same!

So far as this succeeds, it is a confession that punishment does not deter, but instead suggests and encourages crime.

Up to this time French laws and French manners instituted to distinguish between a misdemeanor and a crime, have encouraged crime.

A state of lawlessness prevails which encourages crime by intimidating public opinion and making decent men unwilling conspirators in the defeat of justice.

"Fiction has always been falsehood, and I would even say that it encouraged crime," said Smythe.

"But," said Charlie, with a troubled look on his face, "would not such work encourage crime and idleness?"