Sentences with phrase «for justice policy»

Disappointingly, the state government's announcement in mid-2016 of $ 3.8 billion funding for prisons over the next four years is indicative that incarceration remains an ongoing priority for justice policy.

David would seem to be arguing that there really is not a problem but if that were true then why was this matter of potential conflicts such a focus in the debates of the Committee for Justice Policy that led to the Access to Justice Act?.

It will also allow for justice policies and practices to be informed by principles of self - determination and by the involvement and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at all levels of the system.

Not exact matches

The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law, said that Qualcomm used its dominance in supplying baseband processors used in smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, set aside a criminal justice memo from his Republican predecessor, John Ashcroft, to charge people with the most serious, provable offenses and replaced it with his own policy of discouraging harsh mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crime.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

According to Department of Justice policy, an application for a search warrant of a lawyer's office such as this is so serious that it usually requires approval of either the U.S. attorney for the district, or the assistant attorney general.

«Tobin was a person who really impressed me, because he had a passion for social justice and for public policy,» she said.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

«Now is the time for all those who value justice and equality in holding Uber accountable, not only in its complicity with Trump's hateful policies but also for impoverishing workers,» the TWA statement read.

Tonight, I was a little surprised to read the following tweets from Marc Lee, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), and Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project:

At almost the same time that he wrote the opinion sustaining the «bubble law,» Justice Stevens issued another opinion for the Court, this one invalidating a high school policy that permitted student - led prayer before football games.

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmeFor better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishmefor instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

It is an attempt to identify in modes of discourse accessible to the public those first principles of truth and justice that are sufficiently clear as to be adopted as bases for public policy and the ordering of international life.

According to James Juhnke, this engagement is good for both sides: Mennonites are forced to consider how nonviolence relates to issues of justice and how it can be applied in terms of public policy, while the broader church must take seriously «our claims that peace is central to the gospel.»

Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and others who are seeking to create a world that is safe for all.

Niebuhr said that the relevant norm for political decisions and social policy is not love, as the liberals had claimed, but justice.

1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.

While the Justice made clear his own preference for pro-life public policies, he argued that in itself democracy is neutral as between competing positions on issues such as abortion and euthanasia.

In other areas the direct quest for immediate justice is not likely to generate the requisite policies, for reasons suggested earlier in this chapter.

The U.S. Catholic bishops affirm the connection eloquently in Economic Justice for All when they write, «To worship and pray to the God of the universe is to acknowledge that the healing love of God extends to all persons and to every part of existence, including work, leisure, money, economic and political power and their use, and to all those practical policies that either lead to justice or impede it.Justice for All when they write, «To worship and pray to the God of the universe is to acknowledge that the healing love of God extends to all persons and to every part of existence, including work, leisure, money, economic and political power and their use, and to all those practical policies that either lead to justice or impede it.justice or impede it.»

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

The policy statement zeroes in on ecological justice's demand for appropriate patterns of energy use.

... It is of crucial importance that the Church acting corporately should not commit itself to any particular policy... This refusal to adopt a particular policy is partly a matter of prudence... still more is it a matter of justice, for even though a large majority of Christians hold a particular view, the dissentient minority may well be equally loyal re.

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

Radical conservatives would more frequently criticize the evils of U.S. policy at home and abroad, defend economic justice as vigorously as they do liberty, and refuse to allow their valid opposition to Marxism - Leninism to lead them to regard all Third World movements for social change as Marxist - Leninist fronts.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Travis Wussow, the ERLC's vice president for public policy, told Baptist Press in written comments Trump's «presidency creates many opportunities, including a pro-life Supreme Court justice, defunding Planned Parenthood and the repeal of the HHS mandate.

(Though we need to note that while the Bible speaks consistently for justice and for siding with the poor it offers little that is unambiguous about policy and strategy for achieving it - another example of how God gives plenty of scope to us to participate in creation - redemption by using our imagination and initiative!)

At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public - justice issues involved.

Evangelicals of a social - justice bent have mounted like - minded projects on a smaller scale, such as the Crossroads Program sponsored by Evangelicals for Social Action (seeded by Pew Trust money in 1992) and its ongoing series of publications on faith and public policy.

«While I applaud their moral vision of justice and commitment to the poor,» he explains, «as a social scientist I question the adequacy of the letter's analysis of Third World poverty and the implied policy prescriptions for alleviating it.»

Michael Sligh Organization Representative: Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI - USA) Michael Sligh has worked for over 30 years as a Program Director for RAFI - USA where he manages policy, research and education for the promotion of organic, agro-biodiversity, organic seed development, and a wide - range of food justice, fair trade and other value - added food labeling, policy and marketing issues.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

As it reels from one decision to the next, the NFL and its teams are finding out just how hard it is to come up with a consistent and coherent policy of punishment for players beyond the justice system

According to the revised policy, discipline will be issued by a league office executive with a background in criminal justice, who will assume the position of Special Counsel for Investigations and Conduct.

One quick note — don't miss a recent op - ed, penned by Noah Patrick Jones, JD, a policy advocate for the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice.

Debra Eschmeyer — Food and Society Policy Fellow and the Outreach Director of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice.

Within this role she led and facilitated the Race and Social Justice Initiative for the department and helped develop tools and an equity policy lens that city employees could use in their work.

I think that the protests represent a wake - up call for Israeli social and economic policy - makers, underlining a popular demand for distributive justice enhanced by stronger state intervention in the economy.

The justice secretary wins warm cheers for his «lights - out» policy, but experts warn it will increase self - harm

It seems to me that the current call for «social justice» is not so much related to any specific leftist policy as much as an appeal for the basic values of democracy.