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«Higher rates of disadvantage, over-policing, more restrictive approaches to bail, mandatory sentencing, and a lack of non-custodial sentencing options in regional and remote areas are having a disproportionate impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and bringing them into contact with the criminal justice system at a greater rate.»

In his first speech after being appointed justice secretary and lord chancellor, Michael Gove the former newspaper columnist for The Times, decried the fact that there are «two nations in our justice system at present».

Unfortunately, not every public interest group puts the civil justice system at the top of their priority list.

The criminal justice system at best masquerades as more just than it is.

Like all criminal lawyers, his clients represent people from every range and walk of life, and very commonly, these are people who have had no previous involvement with the criminal justice system at all.

The scene plays out less like a depiction of the justice system at work than as a messy encounter between lawless figures with no sense of a constructive solution.

12 Angry Men is a flawless, brilliant, intense portrayal of our justice system at work, as relevant today as it was during its 1957 release.

«The jails and prisons that brutalize our children with cruelty and solitary confinement makes you question whether we have a criminal justice system at all.

«There are two nations in our justice system at present.

He went on to use the specifics of Mill's case to paint a picture of injustice in the criminal justice system at large, including how black people are disproportionately imprisoned for probation or parole violations.

Does ODR belong in justice systems at all, or does justice have to be done face - to - face and only in specific, brick - and - mortar facilities?

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If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsJustice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade itsjustice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

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 estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

Here are seven highly - praised and massively - popular documentaries, TV series, and a podcast, that offer in - depth looks at the U.S. criminal justice system — warts and all.

Our Government will introduce a Victims Bill of Rights to restore victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice system.

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.

Leading members of Quebec's legal community are applauding the $ 1 billion that the provincial government set aside in this week's budget for projects aimed at modernizing the justice system.

For these at - risk kids, the juvenile justice system is a revolving door that returns them to the environment where their problems began.

RICHMOND, B.C. — A Vancouver sex - trade activist recounted the justice system's failure to protect women who were killed or have disappeared as posters of missing persons were shown on screens Wednesday at a national inquiry.

«Whether it is fake accounts at Wells Fargo or a massive data breach at Equifax, recent scandals have demonstrated that consumers need to access the justice system when a big, powerful company opens accounts in their name, without their consent, and leaves them vulnerable to fraud by failing to secure their personal data,» said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D - Nev.

Coming on the heels of prestige true crime series like Serial and HBO's The Jinx, the Netflix's documentary series offers an astonishing look at the criminal justice system through the bizarre case of Steven Avery.

The series isn't exactly easy to watch — these are real violent crimes, after all — but the show gives a look at the failings of the justice system while also offering a somewhat unsettling character study.

The politicians rule us, rather than represent us, and the justice system has been replaced by a legal system wherein the judges and lawyers play games at the expense of the taxpayers.

The reporting requirement it urged Australia to adopt was one of 85 recommendations it made in a report aimed at revamping the criminal justice system to ensure fairer treatment of victims of child sexual abuse.

Society at large happily turns pedophiles over to the criminal justice system.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

When police do catch criminals, the rest of the criminal justice system moves at a glacial speed, in part because of a lack of manpower.

We're in a cultural moment where more and more people are looking suspiciously at a justice system that seems untrustworthy.

It's little comfort but at least the justice system might give the people of KC some closure, more so than with murder + suicides.

Ava DuVernay's look at the criminal justice system, may be the most shock film of 2016.

Sexual issues, often difficult to resolve in congregations and denominational systems, can find both healing and appropriate justice at many retreat centers, where anonymity and freedom offer space to seek both.

When you look at Scripture, God's justice is asking different questions than I think we do in the contemporary criminal justice system.

Have you ever noticed black suspects show up on our nightly news at much higher percentages than they show up in our criminal justice system?

The criminal justice system answered his question at his sentencing.

As we've written about before, more and more advocates are calling for measures to decriminalize marijuana and reform the criminal justice system, as advocates say that not only are the current laws unfair, but they are also expensive and ineffective at stopping crime.

Aren't there laws against public fraud, not that I'd agree with such laws at all, but are they not in place and if so, why wouldn't the «justice» system take action?

Believing in a person's innocence until he or she has been proven guilty is an important legal principle that is at the very bedrock of the American justice system.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

She works full time at the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Hickory as a Project Coordinator with at - risk youth and now, with the help of BGCA and Kimberly Clark, she will be enrolling in the University of Phoenix to pursue a career in the juvenile justice system helping at - risk kids.

Speaking of conflict, Bottom discovered that more men are upset by the lack of justice in «the system» than at their former wives.

We believe it is important for organisations like ours, working at the heart of the family justice system throughout England, to show leadership on behalf of children and their fathers, and to promote their common interest.

Robin has served as adjunct professor of Women and Crime at Cal State Los Angeles and lecturer on criminal law and the justice system in UCLA's Paralegal Training Program.

The king sat at the apex of the legal system, guaranteeing justice to his subjects, without being subject to the laws that he interpreted and administered.

So there is something distinctive about the youth justice system which shows we can reduce crime and imprisonment at the same time.

But at the same time, have a youth justice system that effectively punishes and reforms those who do commit offenc es.

Eliminating unproductive competition in this way would free up resources for supporting (and diverting) people at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

The Democratic - led Assembly over the next two days will take up a package of a dozen bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system in the state.