Sentences with phrase «means victims of crimes»

It means victims of crimes are afraid to report them.

The fact that there was not much easy to understand legal information, and that much of this information was locked away in wordy legal tomes, meant victims of crime were missing out on access to justice.

Not exact matches

Making a foolish decision doesn't mean that the person who takes advantage of the foolish decision less culpable for the crime, or make the victim responsible.

But the victims of terminal illnesses, poverty, and heinous crimes are forced to suffer the consequences as well — while the great and powerful Oz, i mean, God, sits back and watches.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

Or murder for gain, when the solitary murderer fully understands the implications of what he means to do and all that the victim will suffer at the moment of the crime.

Amid its hodgepodge of topics — female war correspondents, the decorating challenged, moms who are mean to their kids, crime victims who forgive their assailants, and, oh yes, the quest to lose weight — Oprah stresses a message: Make yourself happy.

Evans — who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime he would later be cleared of committing — being found not guilty does not mean the alleged victim lied.

The interim report «Crime recording: A matter of fact» found that «inadequate or absent training» of officers in England and Wales, meant that many victims had been abandoned by the police.

It is eroding data protection, having people detained for sleeping rough, and meaning that victims of crimes are being arrested.

«This will mean many fewer future victims of crime — an achievement which will bring huge benefits for everyone in society.»

Questions - Cabinet Office Prime minister's questions Ten minute rule motion - victims of crime (code of practice) Motion - standing orders relating to ways and means; and supply Motion - scrutiny of draft orders under the public bodies bill Opposition day debate - TBA Adjourment debate - pedestrian access through railway stations

And preventing crime means intervening early in domestic disputes to prevent escalation, it means supporting the vulnerable person who could become a victim of crime, it means tackling anti-social behaviour, it means providing effective public order policing.

When our news team visited the crime scene on Monday, a strange development was noticed: human excreta was found near the very spot where the victim was discovered, a development some superstitious residents believe is meant to foil attempts to track perpetrators of the heinous crime.

So does this individual variation mean that we can use the gut flora «signature» of a dead body to identify unknown victims of crime or a disaster, by matching it to bacteria on the unwashed clothes of missing persons?

From the very first scene of the stupefyingly shallow, but highly energetic b - movie, Crank, suspension of disbelief is an absolute must — I mean, what kind of hit man would actually leave video evidence of a murder at the scene of the crime, or give the intended victim a window of opportunity to exact revenge on him?

Instead of giving the people in her witness protection programme a new life, policewoman Erica van der Linde kills them... As her victims are meant to disappear anyway, her crimes stay hidden.

Two million property crimes annually means you have a 1:150 chance of being a victim every single year!

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

That means keeping equipment in good working order, securing objects such as free weights that could cause injury if left lying around, cleaning up puddles of water and spills in locker rooms, and making sure there's adequate security so that patrons don't become the victims of violent crimes.

It makes a claim about lawyers, and what we do, that means that when lawyers do the things they are actually required to do — such as cross-examine victims of a crime to challenge their credibility — those lawyers can not use the statement of their professional duties to explain and justify their conduct.

Two million property crimes annually means you have a 1:150 chance of being a victim every single year!

I don't mean any disrespect to the victims of the crimes he committed.

And on the issue of drugs, Professor Jeanette Kennett writes in a piece for The Conversation that victim blaming in the area of drug addiction means there is a legal inconsistency whereby addicts are considered responsible for their crimes but others compelled to harmful behaviours are not.

Participants were recruited by means of radio and newspaper advertisements as well as advertisements posted on websites for different groups (eg, crime victims, sexual abuse victims, bereaved parents).

It's akin to blaming a victim of crime for not having the means to afford a better neighborhood.