Sentences with phrase «effect on criminal»

The person had an account in her own name and admitted the posting (for which she apologized, with no effect on her criminal liability.)

«Even something as crude as a regulation that requires a kid stay in school to a fixed age, whether he wants to or not, has a considerable effect on criminal activity,» Cook said.

It could even have salutary effects on the criminal system.

Not exact matches

But the existence of such jurisdictions likely has little effect on the activities of transnational criminal groups in the US.

Specifically, the Sessions memorandum directs U.S. Attorneys to «weigh all relevant considerations, including federal law enforcement priorities set by the Attorney General, the seriousness of the crime, the deterrent effect of criminal prosecution, and the cumulative impact of particular crimes on the community.»

David Super, a law professor at Georgetown University, said that the comments don't seem to have an effect on the NDA but that it could tie Trump to the criminal case surrounding the payment.

The bill that will go into effect on April 1 also revises «the Act on Preventing of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds».

James Bogle, who's also part of Catholic Union, was speaking after barristers went on strike in support of criminal defence solicitors, who've seen a nine per cent pay drop since the government's reforms came into effect at the start of July.

By 1976 LEAA had poured close to $ 5 billion into the nation's criminal - justice system, with no measurable effect on crime rates.

The effects of pornography and other portrayals of objectionable or criminal acts on the impressionable.

What about all the unnecessary money that is spent on unnecessary interventions in the hospital, isn't that criminal in a way — causing side effects and higher costs to people not even involved?

Overall, the potential knock - on effects of Venezuela's crisis are alarming: new threats to regional stability, the risk of renewed conflict in Colombia and the danger of unchecked criminal and terrorist networks.

There is worse news: Venezuela's crumbling political order could have a spill over effect on regional stability and Colombia's fragile peace — as well as encourage the global expansion of transnational organized criminal and terrorist networks.

Some studies of children who attended preschool 20 or more years ago find that early childhood education programs also have lasting effects on children's later life chances, improving educational attainment and earnings and, in some cases, reducing criminal activity.

«Brian Kavanagh has worked hard in the Assembly on issues of critical importance to Brooklyn — affordable housing, reforming our criminal justice system, creating an equitable transportation system and combatting the effects of climate change.

Under the Kavanagh / Squadron bill, the factors applicable to all license applications would include the number, type, and proximity of other licenses in the area; whether the applicant has necessary permits; the potential effect of the license on traffic and parking; noise levels; any history of liquor violations or criminal activity at the premises; any history of building and fire violations at facilities operated or owned by the applicant; and any formal communications about the application from the municipality or community board.

How do they compare to costs to society of prohibition of a particular substance, in terms of law enforcement, and opportunity costs from loss of otherwise productive members of society to our criminal justice system, either through incarceration or effects of having a conviction on their record?

That Mario did nothing in the field of criminal justice but build prisons and lock up tens of thousands of young men of color had a devastating emotional effect on me personally.

Nearly # 1bn has been spent on the electronic tagging of criminals over the past 13 years with little effect on cutting offending rates - Guardian

Nearly # 1bn has been spent on the electronic tagging of criminals over the past 13 years with little effect on cutting offending rates

The former News of the World editor will be likely to avoid several lines of questioning on the basis of their effect on the ongoing criminal investigation, especially if she is charged.

Thus the Commission has said it is of the view that «falsified signatures on nomination forms constitute a matter for criminal investigation and are not mere anomalies or clerical errors, which should be pointed out to candidates for corrections to be effected.»

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

I was just on another site reading an article entitled «Asses the True Benefit of more «Caylees Laws» where the writer (unnamed) states «Well - crafted criminal laws should have a preventive effect.

Calling the state's criminal justice system and its lingering effects on convicted criminals «very reminiscent of apartheid South Africa,» social justice advocates on Tuesday morning delivered some 10,000 petition signatures urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to establish commission to help right those wrongs.

He says he will focus on the needs of small businesses, as well as seek to redress the effects of gentrification by maintaining affordable housing, and obtain criminal justice reform, economic and environmental justice.

The study will not measure possible long - term effects on actual criminal offending.

However, while suggesting this CSI Effect is perhaps not quite as widespread as one might imagine among jurors, informatician Richard Overill of King's College London believes it might have a positive effect on reducing the tendency to criminal behaviour among some indiviEffect is perhaps not quite as widespread as one might imagine among jurors, informatician Richard Overill of King's College London believes it might have a positive effect on reducing the tendency to criminal behaviour among some indivieffect on reducing the tendency to criminal behaviour among some individuals.

Jennifer Eberhardt, a social psychologist at Stanford University in California, studies the effects of racial bias on the criminal - justice system in the United States.

He is a natural for the role: he has published dozens of papers on the effects of guns in the U.S., where widespread gun ownership and loose laws make it easy for criminals and potentially violent people to obtain firearms.

The adequate special - effects work by Wizards, Inc. gets extra juice from energetic cutting by Michael Kewley (later a producer on «Law & Order: Criminal Intent»), and the music by Peter Kaye suggests a particularly diabolical episode of «Hearts of Space».

Based on a graphic novel, the movie centers on a criminal (Vaughn) who takes out a life insurance policy on himself in order to provide for his daughter (Steinfeld), but must stay alive long enough for the policy to take effect.

The wild plot focuses on a woman who seeks a Dickensian revenge plan against a local criminal, conveyed with cheapjack special effects and a narrator who guides us though the action with hilariously excited — and almost uninterrupted — interjections.

Based on a back - of - the - envelope calculation of the relationship between enrollment and criminal activity in my sample, I estimate that the effects of winning a school lottery on enrollment could potentially explain about 45 percent of the impact on criminal activity in the high school sample, but only about 10 percent in the middle school sample.

One must also factor in the effect that keeping difficult students in school has on other students, many of whom may now be subject to increased probabilities of being held back, dropping out, or ending up in the criminal system.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

A 2015 meta - analysis of twelve randomized control trials (RCT) of restorative interventions in UK and Australian criminal justice settings found reduced repeat offenses on a short — term basis but weaker long term effects.

I love the part on the State's «Parental Bullying Flow Chart» where the Parent is asked to consider himself / herself a criminal if he / she does not comply and to sign a form to that effect.

DOT employees who file confidential financial disclosure reports include career employees who participate in, e.g., contracting and procurements, administering grants or licenses, regulating or auditing non-Federal entities, other activities having economic effect on the interests of non-Federal entities, and activities involving auditing or investigating violations of criminal or civil law.

In Ruby on the Outside, Nora Raleigh Baskin gives readers a serious, relatable look into the criminal justice system and its ripple effects.

I don't want to say more for fear of spoiling it, but it's a very interesting work that borrows heavily from Grant Morrison's favorite theme of the effect of fictional art on «real life» (and vice versa) and Ed Brubaker's «Criminal» storytelling style.

I looked at the phenomenon, and talked to Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson about the effect that had on Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals, which is available via the comiXology website and Android app, iBooks, and Image's own website, but can't be bought in - app from comiXology's iPad app.

Between 2005 - 2008, Mark R. Ward (Economist at University of Texas) and A. Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) conducted a study that included the short to medium effects of violent video games based on the top 50 retail video games sold in correlation with violent criminal offenses from the Nation Indecent Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

In «fact» the only evidence that emissions produced by human industry have any measurable effect on the «Temperature of the Earth» is that it is proclaimed loudly and often that it is an unchallenged and unchallengeable fact and every effort is made do demonize and / or ridicule and / or prosecute as a criminal anyone who dares to question, no matter how mildly, that it is in fact a «fact».

On the contrary, the surprise effect would be smaller, if a criminal court decided immediately on the extension of statutory limitation period in connection to charges had been brought long before this period was supposed to elapsOn the contrary, the surprise effect would be smaller, if a criminal court decided immediately on the extension of statutory limitation period in connection to charges had been brought long before this period was supposed to elapson the extension of statutory limitation period in connection to charges had been brought long before this period was supposed to elapse.

The new laws, which will take effect on January 1, 2018, prohibit employers from asking job applicants about their previous salary and set requirements regarding criminal background checks.

In its Taricco I judgment (analysed previously by M. Lassalle on this blog), the ECJ decided that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of limitations periods for the duration of criminal proceedings pending before a court, if such rules were liable to have an adverse effect on fulfilling by the Member States their obligations under Article 325 TFEU.

The ECJ approach neglects the negative effects on fundamental principles built by a national constitutional consensus and enshrined in the Constitutions, such as legal certainty in criminal matters (v.g. the Taricco case) and to that constitutional courts can not look the other way.

It will be interesting to follow developments in the province's plan, and to see what effect it has on the criminal justice system.