criminality
IPA: krɪmʌnˈæɫɪti
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being criminal.
- (uncountable) Criminal activity.
- (countable) A criminal act.
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Examples of "criminality" in Sentences
- Tenure does not protect a professor when criminality is involved.
- And the scope of her attempted criminality is on a par with stealing from children.
- More interesting to me is the effect of being branded as a criminal, quite apart from the lessons in criminality one might absorb in juvie.
- "Impulse control" may be the key factor in criminality (though I don't certify that), but it is not the most salient factor in "wealth accumulation."
- Okay, before some pettifogging comment-lawyer jumps on me, criminality is not perfectly inverse to IQ: there is an IQ threshold below which individuals are too disabled even for a career of violent crime.
- The PCL-R was designed to discriminate psychopathic individuals from other criminals -- a job it does very well -- but this does not mean that criminality is essential to the construct of psychopathy ....
- The researchers reportedly go with one of the more obvious ones: Kids grouped with lots of other young delinquents end up enmeshed in a “culture of deviance” where criminality is both taught and valorized.
- I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education.
- Many school bullies are in the pipeline to prison: their problems with drugs and alcohol and violence are frighteningly easy to forecast, and studies have documented that the connection between school bullying and future criminality is real -- so real in fact that New York's district attorney's office has deployed staff from the prosecutor's office to visit schools and address bullying.
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