descend into crime

Michael later descends into crime and is eventually arrested.

The court previously heard Murray had a dysfunctional childhood that descended into crime largely due to his addiction to drugs and alcohol.

When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder.

Tsiskaridze rejects the claims and in turn points to the attack as evidence that the theater has descended into crime and violence under Iksanov's watch.

But by 2006, sectarian violence surged, and the groups descended into crime, controlling cash flows at gas stations and stolen car markets.

The top two shelves were mostly high-brow book-of-fhe-month offerings descending into crime fiction by writers like Crumley and Willeford and others.

In their wake indigenous peoples are left with damaged social fabric and are inclined to descend into crime and substance abuse, and a lingering resentment.

However, the pioneer of Sunday schools is commonly attributed to Robert Raikes, editor of the Gloucester Journal, who saw the need to prevent children in the slums descending into crime.

Historians do not regard Gilles as a martyr to a pre-Christian religion; other scholars tend to view him as a lapsed Catholic who descended into crime and depravity, whose real crimes caused the land forfeitures.

The young Absalom Kumalo (the excellent Daniel Breaker), an ambiguous figure in the book, who descends into crime through a combination of weak character and hard circumstances, is given a tidy, sin-scrubbing speech about wanting desperately to better his life for his fiancée, Irina (Sherry Boone), and unborn son.