Sentences with phrase «civil penalties instead»

[11] Professor Coffee warns against the trend in the United States toward over-criminalization in the regulatory sphere, and urges civil penalties instead:

Hamilton has advocated for an end to broken windows policing and has proposed legislation to decriminalize fare evasion on subways, buses and railroads, which would make fare evasion a civil penalty instead of a criminal penalty.

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The bill should instead preserve local control, eliminate the necessity of a central bureaucracy and allow local law enforcement including dog wardens, humane agents, health officials as well as existing state agencies to conduct inspections, issue cease and desist orders and refer violations for imposition of civil or criminal penalties.

Instead, these are social and civil penalties that affect you because you have a criminal record.

The following is information on points assessed against your driver license if you choose to pay the civil penalty or are adjudicated guilty by a judge instead of attending and completing a driver improvement course: