Sentences with phrase «justice system risks»

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

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.

Now if a mother must identify him as a risk in order to prevent his registration, this makes the situation visible and provides an opportunity for support to be provided to both of them: to ensure her safety; and to engage with him on behaviour change, or through the criminal justice system.

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

«The question of inherent unfairness concerns not simply the structure of the system which may be capable of operating fairly, but whether there are mechanisms in place to accommodate the arguably higher risk of unfair decisions for those with mental health, learning or other difficulties which effectively deprive them of the ability effectively to participate in, at least, some of the decisions,» Lord Justice Leveson said.

«The government recognise that the profession is fragile and yet continue to take grave risks with the stability of the criminal justice system.

«There is an overwhelming need for reform in juvenile justice system, starting with the replacement of Commissioner Gladys Carrion, whose misguided policies and divisive management has put clients and staff at greater risk.

The Governor's proposal will help at - risk youth find positive opportunities in their communities, while also providing citizens who enter the criminal justice system the opportunity to rehabilitate, return home, and contribute to their communities.

«Having personal experience with the criminal justice system and now working with at - risk youth to develop consequential thinking skills, this population is extremely vulnerable to the negative influences and trauma of incarceration, resulting in re-offending and potentially prolonged mental and social instability,» explained M.A.D.E Transitional Services Executive Director Toney Earl, Jr..

The Erie County Probation Department also provides assistance to parents and guardians raising children who are at risk of penetrating the criminal justice system through our Family Services and Juvenile Delinquency Services Teams.

Cuomo says it will generate reformation for incarcerated individuals and help at risk youth find jobs to keep them away from the criminal justice system.

The criminal justice system's reliance on DNA evidence, often treated as infallible, carries significant risks

This study investigated whether children whose mothers had an alcohol - related disorder would be at risk of early - life contact with the justice system, which can lead to many negative outcomes across an individual's life span.

The criminal justice system in the United States uses a variety of tools to assess the behavior of criminal offenders, and those risk assessments can have a significant impact on an offender's fate.

At the beginning of the trial in September 2011, U.S. earthquake scientists conveyed alarm at the idea of subjecting earthquake risk assessment to the criminal justice system.

Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney and former local narcotics officer, Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system.

In IDP camps, there are cases where the perpetrator is allowed to remain in the community through a community settlement out of fear that the perpetrator would be given a lengthy service in the formal justice system, putting survivors at risk of reprisals and further sexual violence.

Its findings bolster the research - based consensus that suspensions predict lower achievement, higher drop out rates, and greater risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.

Such schools serve very high - risk student populations, including those in the juvenile justice system, with substance abuse problems, who are persistently truant, and more.

When suspended, these students are at a significantly higher risk of falling behind academically, dropping out of school, and coming into contact with the juvenile justice system.

Among the specific programs are those funded through JJDPA's Title V, the only federal program that provides delinquency prevention funding at the local level to reach youth at risk and help keep them out of the juvenile justice system.

They can face an added risk «of being held back, dropping out or ending up in the criminal justice system.»

Some of the major factors that lead to credit - deficiency and create risk are: poverty, pregnancy and parenting, questioning sexuality, full time work requirements, family issues leading to homelessness, foster care, inclusion in the criminal justice system, disengagement with traditional education systems, and other similar circumstances.

Seven years ago, IEL created a stem - and career - focused mentoring model for transition - age youth with disabilities involved or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.

The Right Turn Career - Focused Transition Initiative (Right Turn) provides a career development process for youth that are involved with or at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system.

The Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program (RAMP) ™ is a high - tech, career - focused mentoring program for youth involved with or at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system.

The Right Turn Career - Focused Transition Initiative (Right Turn) provides a career development process for youth who are involved with or at - risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system.

In order to reduce the likelihood of students considering dropping out, being part of the juvenile justice system, and having poor attendance in secondary grades, it is imperative that we address these risk factors as well, early on in the academic pipeline.

The American Civil Liberties Union defines the school - to - prison pipeline as «the policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren, especially our most at - risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.»

RAMP is a high - tech, career - focused mentoring program for youth involved with or at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system.

«It made clear that when a child is suspended or expelled from school, their risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system goes up, as does their likelihood of dropping out of school, and repeating a year.»

In addition, kids who miss a lot of school fall behind, do poorly on tests, and are at a higher risk of dropping out and getting involved in the criminal justice system.

This session offers ideas and strategies to serve our most at - risk children and youth through partnerships with school districts, law enforcement, juvenile justice providers, and judicial systems.

Your gifts take music to places that have gone without - schools that have lost their music programs, special education classrooms that have been left out of arts instruction, children in shelters and medical settings, to students with disabilities, and to those in unusual educational settings - home day care centers, early intervention programs, head starts, to students in the juvenile justice system, to children on tribal reservations, to youngsters in high risk communities.

«The frequent use of out - of - school suspension results in increased dropout rates and heightened risk of youth winding up in the juvenile justice system,» stated the study's lead author Daniel J. Losen.

«The numbers in our report indicate an absolute crisis in many California districts since suspending students out of school — with no guarantee of adult supervision - greatly increases the risk for dropping out and involvement in the juvenile justice system.»

Unfortunately, many American Indian youth end up in the juvenile justice system because they are exposed to risk factors that increase their chances of becoming involved in delinquency.

From increasing college attendance rates to decreasing involvement in the criminal justice system, early childhood education positively impacts Nebraska's at - risk children and helps close the achievement gap.

«We can read between the lines -LSB-...] This bill would without a doubt funnel more vulnerable children into the criminal justice system — especially students with special education needs who are already statistically at a much higher risk of incarceration.»

IEL's program, Right Turn Career - Focused Transition Initiative, was highlighted for its positive outcomes in supporting career development for youth that are involved with or at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system.

That's a term describing K - 12 discipline practices that disproportionately funnel at - risk students, particularly students of color, into the criminal justice system.

As Justice Brandeis explained more than 70 years ago, «it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.»»

Requiring the Crown to weigh proportionality, the court says, «would greatly expand the scope of judicial review of discretionary decisions made by prosecutors and put at risk the adversarial nature of our criminal justice system by inviting judicial oversight of the numerous decisions that Crown prosecutors make on a daily basis.»

«Over 90 % of all criminal cases begin and end in the magistrates» courts; it is vital that public confidence in the criminal justice system is not placed at risk.

Ministry of Justice guidance on CMCHA 2007 suggests that factors that might be considered include: the systems of work used by employees; their level of training and adequacy of equipment; supervision of middle management; arrangements for assessing and monitoring risk and auditing its management; and broader attitudes within the organisation to health and safety.

While this pragmatism is understandable, the risk is that we import an enforcement tool which is ill - suited to our criminal justice system.

When we speak up in favour of the rule of law and our justice system, we run the real risk of appearing to protect our vested interests and to be afraid of any change.

The importance of solicitor - client privilege in the justice system should not be minimized; but at the same time, it should not be employed to excuse failure to act when an identifiable class of persons is at risk of falling victim to fraud.

From the point of view of this class — a class I'll just call «lawyers» — it's too clear for argument that (i) law has things to do so that some instrumentalist theory has to be adopted; (ii) few things are simple, so that no single theory will work in every case, whether it's «wealth maximization», «corrective justice», «contract as promise», compensation or deterrence; and (iii) the demands of practice, the solicitor's need to create relations which will be projected into the (uncertain) future and to control the risks his or her client faces, the barrister's need to conduct litigation at a price the parties can afford and in the context of the adversary system, powerfully limit the consideration that a lawyer can give to theory.