It may result from crime, land disputes or a code of honour.

In the same period, there were numerous Mafia shootings as a result of Prohibition, while Hoover continued to deny the very existence of organized crime.

Prohibition created a golden opportunity for organized crime syndicates to smuggle alcohol, and as a result the syndicates were able to gain considerable power in some major cities.

# that the group practice of these techniques by a critical mass of the population, can result in overall improvements in society, including reduced crime, accidents and hospital admissions, and increased prosperity, national security and over all quality of life.

The plan for the colony was that it would be the ideal embodiment of the best qualities of British society, that is, no religious discrimination or unemployment and, as it was believed that this would also result in very little crime, no provision was made for a gaol.

For example, humans see all Cardassian mystery stories as having an identical plot: the inevitable result is that all the suspects are eventually proved guilty of the crime and proving the supremacy of the state.

The Victorian artist and poet Thomas Woolner wrote Silenus, a long narrative poem about the myth, in which Syrinx becomes the lover of Silenus, but drowns when she attempts to escape rape by Pan, as a result of the crime Pan is transmuted into a demon figure and Silenus becomes a drunkard.

Miltiades was given a massive fine for the crime of ' deceiving the Athenian people ', but died weeks later as a result of his wound.

Emotional distress as the result of crime is a recurring theme for all victims of crime.

The experience of victimization may result in an increasing fear of the victim of the crime, and the spread of fear in the community.

" " Fortune hunting became a disease " with the frequent result of a peculiarly American kind of crime, a form of " murder for money ", when " the young ambitious lover of some poorer girl " found " a more attractive girl with money or position " but could not get rid of the first girl, usually because of pregnancy.

When on a case, he will attempt to ascertain clues or confessions from anyone involved in whatever crime has been committed through use of these disguises, and more often than not these schemes end up blowing up in his face, though on a rare occasion events in his investigation end up progressing as a result of his actions.

A crime ( as opposed to a civil wrong or tort ) is an infraction of a law, and will not always have an identifiable individual or group of individuals as its victims, but may also, for example, consist of the preparations that did not result in any damage ( mens rea in the absence of actus reus ), such as attempted murder, offenses against legal persons as opposed to individuals or natural persons, or directed against communal goods such as social order or a social contract or the state itself, as in tax avoidance and tax evasion, treason, or, in non-secular systems, the supernatural ( infractions of religious law ).

However, many modern penal codes have created levels of mens rea called modes of culpability, which depend on the surrounding elements of the crime: the conduct, the circumstances, and the result, or what the Model Penal Code calls CAR ( conduct, attendant circumstances, result ).

As a result of this, Drogheda has a serious unemployment problem, which has in turn led to a serious rise in social problems, including crime ( organised, violent and petty ), poverty, lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and various substance abuse.

As a result the crime remains unsolved and a number of alternative theories as to who carried out the murder have since been proposed.

For Hundertwasser, human misery was a result of the rational, sterile, monotonous architecture, built following the tradition of the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, author of the modernist manifesto Ornament and crime ( 1908 ).

" This means that an individual crime on its own, or even a number of such crimes, would not fall under the Rome Statute unless they were the result of a State policy or an organizational policy.

" As a result of the book's revelations, people are starting to scrutinize possible cases of this " perfect crime ," which involves no physical evidence and no witnesses.

Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty ( usually as a result of some crime being committed ( or threatened ) against a member of their family ).

As a result Slade's track record with crime solving goes through the roof with case after case being solved in record time.

The theory thus makes two major claims: that further petty crime and low-level anti-social behavior will be deterred, and that major crime will, as a result, be prevented.

As a result, victims can be of any chronological age if their mental age is below the age of consent.

As a result, the victims of this disease do not have the opportunity to travel very far from the initial infection zone.

As a result, many of its victims transmit the virus to other individuals before even realizing that they are carrying the disease.

As result, Germany started negotiations with Israel for restitution of lost property and the payment of damages to victims of the Nazi persecutions.

As a result of the discovery, the previous theory that bacteria were responsible for the deaths of Komodo victims was disputed.

As a result, United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 was approved on 31 March 1992, requiring Libya to surrender the suspects, cooperate with the Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 investigations, pay compensation to the victims ' families, and cease all support for terrorism.

As a result, some political commentators have opined that American voters have unrealistic expectations of presidents: voters expect a president to " drive the economy, vanquish enemies, lead the free world, comfort tornado victims, heal the national soul and protect borrowers from hidden credit-card fees.

This also means that, frequently, victims were not completely dead as a result of the exhaust.

As a result, the victims were gassed with carbon monoxide, resulting in death by the combined effects of carbon monoxide poisoning and suffocation.

Stanwood R. Duval, United States District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana as a result of the McWaters v. FEMA class-action, 7 February 2006 was set as the deadline for the official end of any further coverage of temporary housing costs for Katrina victims.

As a result of this suit, the victims received formal apologies and counseling if they chose.

As a result, victims can be of any chronological age if their mental age is below the age of consent.

As a result, there are programs that provide donated used mobile phones to victims of domestic violence and others especially likely to need emergency services.

As a result of that terrible tragedy, major changes were made in the fire codes, and improvements in the treatment of burn victims, not only in Boston but across the nation.

Gunshot victims frequently do collapse when shot, which is usually due to psychological motives, a direct hit to the central nervous system, and / or massive blood loss ( see stopping power ), and is not the result of the momentum of the bullet pushing them over.

Gunshot victims frequently fall or collapse when shot ; this is less a result of the momentum of the bullet pushing them over, but is primarily caused by physical damage or psychological effects, perhaps combined with being off-balance.

As a result, a treaty was signed between Tenochtitlan ( the Aztec capital ), Texcoco, Tlaxcala, and Huejotzingo, to engage in ritual battles which would provide fresh victims.

On 17 January 1995, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali issued a 17-page report on the result of the intervention: the report noted the ongoing repression in Haiti, the complete lack of justice for victims of the September 1991 coup d ' état, the deteriorating economic situation, and the growing impatience of the Haitian people.

13 people died as a result of their injuries, including the bride and her younger brother David ; eight of the victims were from Tipton.

While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor and the victim of a sex crime, while Shepard, an adult, was murdered as part of a hate crime.

In 145 BC, " he expelled all intellectuals: philologists, philosophers, professors of geometry, musicians, painters, schoolteachers, physicians and others, with the result that these brought ' education to Greeks and barbarians elsewhere ,' as mentioned by an author who may have been one of the king's victims " ( Menecles of Barca, FGrHist 270 F 9 ).

However, she has learned her reformation was the result of a mindwipe by Zatanna, a procedure known to deeply affect and, in at least one case, physically incapacitate its victims.