Sentences with phrase «justice approach reduced»

Standard School District Superintendent Paul Meyers writes how adopting a restorative justice approach reduced suspensions in a problematic middle school by more than 50 %.

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The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University advances a balanced, multi-systems approach to reducing juvenile delinquency that promotes positive child and youth development, while also holding youth accountable.

«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.

«I firmly believe that New York can develop an approach to marijuana regulation that addresses public health concerns while reducing the exposure of so many people, and particularly young people of color, to interactions with the criminal justice system that have much more damaging life consequences than marijuana use,» said state Sen. Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan), who's sponsored a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax pot.

RAND researchers examined whether the Community Justice Center reduces the risk of rearrest when compared to more - traditional approaches for addressing arrestees.

When, as part of the effort to reduce the justice budget, the government said that court services would have to be cut, Thomson and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Michael Code (who later became a Superior Court Justice) put forward a different apjustice budget, the government said that court services would have to be cut, Thomson and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Michael Code (who later became a Superior Court Justice) put forward a different apJustice) put forward a different approach.

The CAT (Mr Justice Roth presiding) reduced the total amount of the fines imposed on the Appellants by over # 30 million, and set out detailed reasoning as to the flaws in the OFT's approach.

This new era will integrate the technological legal innovation framework with the systems change approach regime to accelerate improvements in the delivery of legal services while reducing the barriers that prevent equal access to justice.»

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

Richard traces the access to justice movement's beginnings back to the early 1990s, when an array of stakeholders concluded that the existing approach of «just fund more lawyers» was not reducing the justice gap.

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon D...

Overall, the consultations with Indigenous women for this chapter revealed that the development of strategies for reducing Indigenous women's over-representation in the criminal justice system must be approached in a different way.

Skye Bullen, the Community Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth detention.

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crim... Read more

In South Australia, a growing community of people and organisations is calling for a smarter approach to criminal justice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon Dr Robyn Layton AO QC, Justice Reinvestment SA Chairjustice that may help to reduce crime and incarceration rates, reports Hon Dr Robyn Layton AO QC, Justice Reinvestment SA ChairJustice Reinvestment SA Chairperson.

Just as the Australian Government has set ambitious but achievable targets to close the gap in health equality, education and employment, we need to take the same approach to reducing the over-representation of Indigenous children and adults in the criminal justice system.

The Youth Offender Diversion Alternative (YODA) uses a solution - focused treatment approach that aims to reduce violent behaviors in youth who have been charged by the juvenile justice system with assault against a family member (Bolton et al. 2015).

The Campaign Steering Committee also recommends that the Closing the Gap Strategy is enhanced by the development of targets to reduce rates of imprisonment and violence and that achieving the targets is funded by a justice reinvestment approach.