Sentences with phrase «justice circles as»

A package of police reform measures, known in New York's criminal justice circles as the Right to Know Act, will not be considered for passage by the City Council, even though the bills have broad support.

A package of police reform measures, known in New York's criminal justice circles as the Right to Know Act, will not be considered for passage by the NYC Council, even though the bills have broad support.

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Also in circles such as the World Council of Churches, environmentalism was patched on to the quilt of peace and justice, and presented as a seamless garment of progressive commitment.

If and in so far as socialism... means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy, socialism is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty.

One of Ghana's top music producers, Justice Oteng known in music circles as Wei Ye Oteng is not enthused about actor Lilwin's recent music exploits.

Portman has been the subject of much film activity recently — she's circling Alex Garland's Annihilation, is contemplating playing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in The Basis Of Sex and is attached to star as a spiritualist in Planetarium.

«Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management,» a resource from Edutopia's Schools That Work, explores how dialogue circles, as part of the restorative - justice program at Glenview Elementary School in Oakland, California, have helped to build collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among stCircles to Support Classroom Management,» a resource from Edutopia's Schools That Work, explores how dialogue circles, as part of the restorative - justice program at Glenview Elementary School in Oakland, California, have helped to build collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among stcircles, as part of the restorative - justice program at Glenview Elementary School in Oakland, California, have helped to build collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among students.

The charter school narrative has come full circle for me throughout my life and career as an advocate for social justice.

It is this work that inspired us, as a teacher leader and parent leader in the Partnership network, to establish Parent Restorative Justice Circles at Roosevelt for special needs families.

Stella Connell Levy, president and executive director of the Restorative Schools Vision Project — a human rights organization that uses restorative justice to keep kids in school when they make mistakes — emphasizes that the circle and other such activities come to function as «safe spaces.»

The school - to - prison pipeline phenomenon that has been a major topic of discussion in education circles in recent years is defined as a result of policies that encourage a police presence at schools, harsh tactics such as extreme physical restraint, zero - tolerance policies and other automatic punishments that result in suspensions and out - of - class time, and other actions that could increase a student's chances of landing in the criminal justice system, according to Teaching Tolerance magazine, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Not for nothing did Gayle Feldman, covering the American Association of Publishers for TheBookseller quote one publishing executive saying, «things are going to get ugly» as the US Department of Justice circles with warnings of a collusion suit.

He also serves as the Artist - in - Residence at New Roots Public Charter School, focusing on social equity and environmental justice, and is a trained facilitator for Talking Circles On Race and Racism, at the Multicultural Resource Center, both in Ithaca, NY.

This circles back again to the idea of serving your reader, as well as doing your topic justice: don't punish your point by burying it inside 2,000 words of prose where it will never be found.

My concern is that the Supreme Court, by setting an arbitrary limit with scant comparable evidence on trial delay, has stirred up a hornet's nest in political circles, where justice spending doesn't have the same political cachet as hospital spending.

ADR features prominently in the criminal justice system in the form of negotiation (plea bargaining) and increasingly through the use of practices and institutions such as restorative circles, victim - offender mediation and problem solving courts.

At issue was a letter now housed in Library and Archives Canada written by then - Justice (later Chief Justice) Lyman Poore Duff in 1924 to the British judge Lord Haldane, known in some circles as the «wicked stepfather of the Canadian constitution» because of his role in neutering federal economic regulatory authority in division of powers cases.

Lennox's career came full circle in 2007 when his eight - year term as Chief Justice concluded.

Therapeutic and restorative processes, such as Koori and Murri courts, drugs courts and healing circles, are ways in which the criminal justice system can help to rebuild relationships and deliver positive outcomes for the entire community.

These include community policing, night patrols, Community Justice Panels and Groups, circle sentencing, and participation in courts such as the Nunga Court (SA), Murri Court (Qld) and Koori Court (Vic).

Justice models such as family group conferencing and circle sentencing have been trialled in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales.