But the right's knee-jerk response—that this is criminality, pure and simple, and that to seek a deeper explanation is to excuse the culprits—is also wrong.
Users of such planes are also more likely to commit fraud: a careless attitude to other people's money sometimes shades into outright criminality, it seems.
The negative image is one of piracy -- that lovely word that conjures up so much and the influence of international criminality and extremist organizations, which still are around.
The Attorney General Eric Holder said it was time to end that broken system, one he said trapped too many communities in a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration.
We all know that most of these children in the case of Honduras come exactly from the areas where there are greatest levels of violence, criminality and drug trafficking activities.
The order to disband the Iraqi army put 400,000 armed and jobless men onto Iraq's streets, at the same time removing a potential counterforce to both internal criminality and meddling by Iraq's neighbours.