Sentences with phrase «involve incarceration»

Most of his clients have not been convicted or have had negotiated pleas that do not involve any incarceration.

The «paradigm case» to which Lord Hope referred had previously been considered by Lord Hoffmann in JJ, where it had been identified as a deprivation of liberty involving incarceration in a prison cell.

To that end, the government enacted a number of mandatory minimum sentences — which almost always involves incarceration — in the belief that Canada's judiciary are too lenient.

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

Laurel Starks has served as a court - appointed real estate expert for messy divorce cases that involve incarcerations, restraining orders, attempted suicides, and attempted murders.

Not exact matches

People had expected prompt prosecution and incarceration of offenders, to deter others, but what we witnessed was a situation where some key officials of this administration were involved in unwholesome acts, capable of tarnishing the image of government.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

Alice Green of the Center For Law and Justice says she has worked for 31 years on issues involving mass incarceration.

She is arrested and then released, a pattern that will continue, although the incarcerations grow brutal, involving hunger strikes and the barbaric practice of forcible feeding.

Their long incarceration even got a huge number of celebrities, musicians and film personalities involved in attempt to raise awareness for their unjust treatment.

Mining her own experiences of visiting her father in prisons for the past 19 years, Smith will present a combined media installation involving video, neon, photographic and textual works to visualize the ways in which an impersonal bureaucratic system of incarceration take effects on the bodies and minds of the extended network of people bound to it.

Depending upon the particular campaign finance law involved, which isn't clearly specified, there might be a criminal penalty (either a misdemeanor or a minor felony) as well, which could give rise to a probation sentence, a sentence to some period of incarceration, a period of post-release parole, criminal fines, court costs, and, at least in the case of a felony, some collateral consequences of that conviction such as a prohibition on owning a gun and ineligibility for many occupations and jobs.

This means that any offense would be a juvenile delinquency prosecution, which involves a secret trial without a jury, much shorter sentences for the same offenses (that would be served in a juvenile detention center rather than an adult jail or prison if incarceration was ordered), and the sealing of the record of the conviction when you become an adult.

She represented CARAL in its intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in G v. Winnipeg Child and Family Services, which involved the medical incarceration of a pregnant aboriginal woman who was sniffing solvents and in Dobson v. Dobson, a New Brunswick case where a child was suing his mother for injuries he suffered as a foetus as a result of her negligence.

In addition to criminal penalties such as fines or incarceration, a conviction for cocaine possession could have a devastating impact on any immigration proceedings you may be involved in.

These days, since there is now a right to appeal a criminal conviction under state law or federal statute (but not the U.S. Constitution), a writ of habeas corpus is only brought when direct appeals of a conviction have been exhausted, often several years after the original conviction (which makes a writ of habeas corpus only useful for convictions involving long sentences of incarceration).

Our analysis of the data also reveals that approximately 25 % of Aboriginal persons received sentences that involved some degree of incarceration, compared to approximately 10 % of non-Aboriginal persons, or 2.5 times more for Aboriginal persons.

In addition, they could face incarceration until they are able to pay fines involved in causing an accident there.

Additional difficulties are also involved in prisoners being cut off waiting lists for public housing, through being incarcerated and hence under «state care» already and the fact that prisoners currently inside incarceration are often not aware of the exact time they may be released (pending parole etc) and so are unable to apply for public housing while within prison.

The behaviors involved in Pyromania can lead to incarceration for arson, damage to property, or manslaughter.

Prior research also provides insight into how paternal risk factors such as domestic violence, incarceration, multipartner fertility, and substance abuse can decrease an unmarried father's likelihood of being involved with his children.1, 2 Drawing on survey data from unmarried Texas parents, CFRP builds on these findings in several ways: 1) examining the intersection and associations between the parental relationship, father involvement, paternal support, and AOP signing, 2) investigating how each of these topics is informed by a web of personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors, and 3) approximating how the parental relationship, father involvement, and paternal support are likely to change over time.

Since 1974, the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO) core requirement of federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has prohibited the incarceration of status offenders and non-delinquent youth involved with the courts.

The publication also recommends ways to continue reducing reliance on incarceration and improve the odds for young people involved in the justice system.