Sentences with phrase «impact on crime»

Overall, I find that winning the lottery to attend a first - choice school has a large impact on crime for high - risk youth.

This program unfortunately has had a negative impact on our crime - fighting efforts.

Despite promises that curbing the Second Amendment rights of Americans will reduce violent crime, the SAFE Act has had no meaningful impact on crime or gun violence.

Its popularity among voters is also in steady decline as numerous studies show it has no positive impact on crime rates.

«It has been the case in the past when we have had previous recessions that it has had an impact on crime,» she told Sky News on Thursday.

Your work, whether in command of a locality or a policing specialism, impacts on crime across whole towns and neighbourhoods over months and years.

Writing in the journal Applied Economics, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson (both from the University of Wales Swansea) and Louise Parker (from the University of East Anglia) take a closer look at two ways that unemployment impacts on crime: the «opportunity» effect (a strong economy means more goods worth stealing, and fewer people sat at home to guard them) and the «motivation» effect (a weak economy widens perceived differences between lifestyles and can tempt some into crime).

The reform has the potential to produce large impacts on crime by eliminating criminal records for petty marijuana offenses.

Not exact matches

«But when it comes to enacting proactive policing strategies that would have an impact on violent crime in Milwaukee, and in Milwaukee County, he is completely absent from the situation.

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.»

I'll be speaking on the first panel, «Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: the Islamic State's Impact on Vulnerable Religious Minority Communities.»

Since bully behaviour has a negative impact on families, especially children, and undermines the purpose of the insti / tution of marriage, perhaps we should deny anyone convicted of a violent crime the right to marry.

Without touching on the topic of whether slavery is still having an impact on american crime rates, it's inaccurate to suggest Norway only participated in the slave trade 1000 + years ago.

«This ruling has a profound impact on how the police have investigated crime under a legal framework interpreted and used during the last 25 years,» he said.

You would think time in the slammer would have more an impact on deterring crime than taking away their pensions.

When the police stop and search someone, they do so because they are trying to tackle the sorts of crime that have a real impact on real people; knife crime, drug dealing, burglary, car theft.

But on a closer reading, it became apparent that this was only because: a) it has no impact on Libyan state sovereignty; b) it absolved no states of going to war with one another; and c) it goes towards tackling international crimes that the world has little or no idea how to tackle.

He explained that the rise in the level of violent crime across Nigeria was having a negative impact on the development of the country.

Ulster County Attorney Bea Havranek, whose office prosecutes crimes committed by youths, in Family Court, said Wednesday that it was «premature» to say whether the law would have an impact on her office.

«Not only is marijuana an untapped revenue source for the city and the state, but the prosecution of marijuana - related crimes has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on black and Hispanic communities for far too long.»

Given the somewhat low impact on regular citizens, the costs of fighting organized crime are not cheap enough to justify investing as much money as required.

Plates which fail to comply with the rules can have a significant impact on criminal investigations and crime detection.

The use of summary justice and DNA data are «difficult» because of their impact on civil liberties but they are the only way to solve crime, Tony Blair has declared.

While today's initiative - the first of its kind - is not a direct reflection of that, Mr Ferguson admitted that the impact of crime on young people was inevitably a factor in the decision to choose the home affairs committee for the trial.

The Home Office claims the maps will also allow people to see how local crime fighting partnerships are impacting on the issues of local concern and will give people the information needed to dictate local priorities.

The review's conclusions have led to the creation of new guidance for public sector managers on how to interpret the act, which includes the clear statement that it should have no impact on criminal law or fighting crime.

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As gang violence becomes an increasingly staple on the political agenda, the government today launched a review into the impact of media violence on children, as politicians attempt to identify the «cause» of violent crime.

At the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, $ 44,000 in IMPACT money goes to pay overtime for a Deputy to focus on crime in Kingston and to support the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team.

Howie Katz, the gay activist who led the hate crimes bill coalition in New York for more than a decade (and another Impact Award winner this year), and Matt Foreman, who headed the Pride Agenda when the bill finally passed in 2000, both recall that Paterson was one of two African - American legislators who spearheaded the refusal to compromise on the inclusion of sexual orientation in the legislation.

He explained that the rise in the level of violent crimes across Nigeria was having a negative impact on national development.

The socioeconomic section of the SGEIS faced a huge amount of criticism when it was released because it concentrated on positive economic impacts while not giving any estimates of costs incurred to municipalities or the state or any treatment of the socioeconomic stresses seen in other areas where wide - spread drilling has occurred, such as higher rents, noise, higher crime rates, increased traffic, and loss of jobs in other sectors.

Justice spokesman David Howarth said: «For these offenders, effective drug treatment outside prison will have a far greater impact on reducing future crime than short - term prison sentences.

He says those abandoned properties can contribute to crime and a have a serious, negative impact on property values.

The proportion of people thinking that the Conservatives have the best policies on crime has dropped slightly from around 33 % up until now, to only 30 % since the «hug - a-hoodie» speech, that is only a small drop, but does suggest that the crime speech had some impact.

I am skeptical about the decision having a major impact on nationwide U.S. crime in the 1990s because it did not strongly affect the births of children considered to be at high risk of becoming criminals.

By analyzing studies from after that time period as well as recent research relying on new statistical techniques for assessing the impact of legal changes, the pair found an emerging consensus that deregulating concealed carry restrictions increases violent crime.

Entitled «A Partial Test of the Impact of a Casino on Neighborhood Crime,» the study was published online on by Palgrave MacMillan's Security Journal, a peer - reviewed journal for security researchers and professionals.

Yet the Internet's impact on hate crime was not uniform and was predominantly present in areas with higher levels of racism, identified by the amount of racial segregation present and the proportion of racially charged search terms used.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

In their research, Dr. Itai Ater of Tel Aviv University's Recanati Business School, Dr. Yehonatan Givati of Hebrew University, and Dr. Oren Rigbi of Ben - Gurion University examined the impact of transferring authority over jails from the police to the Prison Authority made on arrests and crime in Israel.

Gringo is a messy, confused entry in the crime genre that wastes its stellar ensemble on an uninspired narrative and leaves minimal impact.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact was presented to: Crime + Punishment (Director: Stephen Maing)-- Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorImpact was presented to: Crime + Punishment (Director: Stephen Maing)-- Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorimpact on young minorities.

He will leave a positive impact on the world by committing a morally justifiable crime: killing the judge.

Last August, Ryan Murphy announced that American Crime Story's interrogation of race and politics in America would expand to take on the weather itself, with a second - season examination of the impact and lingering effects of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina crisis.

This looks to be very much a crime drama in the vein of The Sopranos, in that the focus is more on how the business impacts the family rather than the crime business itself.

Crime + Punishment / U.S.A. (Director: Stephen Maing)-- Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.

First, I use estimates that economists have developed of the social cost of crimes, which include tangible costs, such as lost productivity and medical care, as well as intangible costs, such as impact on quality of life; these estimates are extremely high for fatal crimes.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

We study the long - term impact of increased school segregation on crime by matching students» enrollment records from CMS to their arrest and incarceration records from 1998 to 2010.