"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Indeed, juvenile offender doesn't commit a crime, he commits a delinquent act.
- Prior to her first appearance, she was sentenced to a youth detention center repeatedly for delinquent acts during her protests.
- It is an 88-bed facility for male and female detained (not committed) youth who have been accused of delinquent acts and are awaiting their court hearings.
- In children too there seems to be an increase in problems relating to antisocial, aggressive conduct and delinquent acts.
- At age 15, alumni of both the child-initiated programs engaged in about half as many delinquent acts as did the direct-instruction group.
- I.e. instead of working hard being the common goal for respect, it may become a delinquent act like who commits the most vandalism to gain the respect.
- Juvenile court officers work with youth who are accused of delinquent acts, to oversee the treatment and restitution of the young person in question.
- This program aimed to prevent youth from committing delinquent acts.
- He's committed no delinquent act.
- Internal: by which a person's conscience or sense of guilt prevents him or her from engaging in delinquent acts.
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