Sentences with phrase «justice system point»
Second, studies of the experiences of female offenders in the juvenile justice system point to a number of conclusions regarding treatment of female offenders at the «front - end» of the system.
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While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.
It is so incomprehensible to understand how a company (Fortune Hi - Tech Marketing) that claims its mere existence is to help as many as possible, with help of the church, can also be so obnoxiously arrogant to believe they can manipulate the justice system to a point where they can push someone to death.
But I would like to point out several dangers in the thinking of those who reject the concept of justice based on creation ordinances known to all persons, regardless of their religious persuasion or soteriological and revelational systems.
Niebuhr points out that every concrete system of justice rests upon a balance of power.
Only through substitutionary atonement can you have both justice AND grace simultaneously: justice because the sins of the world were atoned for by Christ (that was the WHOLE symbolic point of the OT sacrifice system!!)
«Harlem's Man With the Plan,» January / February 2009 «Obama, drawing on the research of his Hyde Park neighbor, the economist James Heckman, has made the point that programs like the Harlem Children's Zone are not giveaways; they're investments that will pay for themselves in reduced spending on welfare, job training, and the criminal justice system.»
But Obama, drawing on the research of his Hyde Park neighbor, the economist James Heckman, has made the point that programs like the Harlem Children's Zone are not giveaways; they're investments that will pay for themselves in reduced spending on welfare, job training, and the criminal justice system.
Zylka pointed out though, the holding center has already been the subject of a federal Department of Justice review and over the past few years has taken major steps forward to address perceived flaws in the system.
The ballot line was formed in 2014 as Cuomo sought to highlight a 10 - point package of measures impacting women in the workplace, housing and criminal justice system.
The Brennan Center for Justice released a study this morning pointing to the racial and economic diversity of political donors in a public financing system.
«When I was first elected speaker, I said at some point we're going to have a real review of the criminal justice system,» he said, predicting that the effort would resume next year, though he could not promise success.
So it's not about visa applications, but about foreigners who are already in Germany and are violating German law (how to deal with those is a point of contention between the left and the right; the right to far - right wants to «deport criminal foreigners», while the left wants to use the German justice system).
Lord Justice Leveson opened the latest phase of his inquiry by making a statement in which he pointed out that nobody had said the present system of regulation is «adequate or sufficient».
We've seen a summer of discontent in the criminal justice system: with the deeply troubling rise in prison suicides, a meltdown in probation and a family court service at breaking point.
«This incident and the tragic death of Eric Garner point to a truly broken criminal justice system.
Proponents of marijuana legalization point to the numerous benefits to the economy, to individuals» health and to the criminal justice system.
Elected officials promised us that his story would be a turning point and that New York would fundamentally transform a criminal justice system designed to criminalize low - income black and brown New Yorkers and then place a bounty, through the money bail system, on our freedom.
«In all the serious researches on the best known administration of justice systems, it is evident that at various points in their histories, the institutions were challenged by falling standards, corruption, and abuse of office.
«Having seen the justice system from multiple vantage points he knows firsthand the importance of getting things right.»
They discuss the Avery case, and the broader lessons about the criminal justice system that it points to, as well as Strang's experiences taking part in the film.
The point is that any person whether they have power as a demagogue, or through illegal use of our justice system, can threaten the legal standing of our democracy.
And she pointed to the issue of individuals getting arrested for minor infractions, such as turnstile jumping, arguing that people should not be funneled into the criminal justice system.
The debate has sparked new points of contention in light of the federal government's heightened commitment to deport immigrants ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.
The report points to future directions that much - needed research should take, and should help key actors in the criminal justice system — law enforcement, lawyers, and judges — make more informed decisions.
«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.
At that point the only difference between Fraser and Dirty Harry is that Fraser still believes in the legal system and Dirty Harry knows that justice is an academic concept unsuited for street survival.
Taking a distinctly right - wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the... Read More»
The report, which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), points out that the juvenile justice system relies heavily on a strategy of harsh punishment when its real goal should be helping and healing young people who are struggling.
A recent report from the Juvenile Law Center on how to improve outcomes for young people in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems underscores this point.
Regardless of the outcome of their arrests, this formal contact with the juvenile / criminal justice systems (J / CJS) is a critical developmental turning point, with substantial implications along the life course.
Many in the short - term online lending industry were surprised by the announcement, which seems to be in lock - step with the current administration's Operation Choke Point, an initiative launched in 2013 by the United States Department of Justice, whose stated intent was to «attack Internet, telemarketing, mail, and other mass market fraud against consumers, by choking fraudsters» access to the banking system.»
Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»
Having been a lawyer and a judge in this province for over 40 years, it strikes me that we have built a legal system that has become increasingly burdened by its own procedures, reaching a point that we have begun to impede the very justice we are striving to protect.
The problems of civil justice, of access to civil justice and of unmet need for service in civil justice are most commonly studied from the point of view of the justice system, mainly with regard to the courts.
To make his point he goes to such lengths as to cite an observer's description of the Task Force on Systems of Civil Justice:
«As a result of repeated cuts, our justice system has deteriorated over many years to breaking point, and we are now seeing the cumulative impact on...
(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;
«As a result of repeated cuts, our justice system has deteriorated over many years to breaking point, and we are now seeing the cumulative impact on practitioners seeking to operate within it — particularly the criminal and family Bar — on all others working within it, and on members of the public passing through it.
Indeed at the Glasgow seminar on 19th October 2009, a number of speakers made the point that personal injury litigation, which is currently being conducted under the new procedures developed by the Court of Session, is the most successful part of the Scottish Civil Justice system.».
The public accounts committee in 2016 said the criminal justice system was at breaking point.
... prepared to speak with the judiciary about their interest in having the discussion at this point in time, where we would go, and canvass the views of other participants in the justice system.
In a sense, the fact that this point needs emphasis shows how pervasive the one - path - to - justice - fits - all thinking remains in Canada's justice system.
Justice David Brown delivered a paper on 21 November 2014 at the Carleton County Law Association Annual Meeting in which he sets out a 5 point action plan for moving the judicial system towards achieving its fundamental goal — the fair, timely and cost effective determination of civil cases on their merits.
The CBA's Code of Professional Conduct on Obligatory Withdrawal states: «4 (a) if the lawyer is instructed by the client to do something inconsistent with the lawyer's duty to the court or tribunal and, following explanation, the client persists in such instructions etc.;» Regrettably, I believe the B.C. SC has totally missed the point: upholding the law comes first and therefore, anyone engaging in white - collar criminal activity should be charged or the public will loose faith and confidence in the independence and impartiality of the Justice System.
In a 1999 paper on the inevitable failure of the Ontario integrated justice system project, Carl Baar pointed out that one major problem to the implementation of such a system would be the incompatibility of certain older computers with the new technology, and the fact that replacing them was not factored into the project.
However, the point remains: U.S. criminal justice systems have used math to guide decision - making for about a century.
As Lear points out, not everyone who needs legal services requires the tools provided by the justice system.
«In America, where the stability of courts and of all departments of government rests upon the approval of the people, it is peculiarly essential that the system for establishing and dispensing justice be developed to a high point of efficiency and so maintained that the public shall have absolute confidence in the integrity and impartiality of its administration,» the canon stated.