The group said the system did not allow for sentences to match individual crimes.

But then he thought, Why should this one wolf be shut up for an individual crime, when mass crimes go unpunished?

It is rising as a whole, the police say, and homeless people are linked to a greater number of individual crimes.

In these smaller cultures, weak police forces already have their hands full struggling to control individual crime or politically motivated violence.

Today's department doesn't just try to solve individual crimes.

He said the "whole design and purpose of the statute" was to attack a pattern, rather than just a few individual crimes.

A sheaf of individual crime reports provided with the statistics suggests as much.

For the first time the Mafia had been prosecuted as an entity rather than a collection of individual crimes.

Like Nipper, they had been doing time since the days when mobsters worked their individual crimes.

This means that individual crimes cannot easily be tracked through the system using the unique identifiers.