Sentences with phrase «more victims of crime»

«With each new offence communities are being blighted and more victims of crime are suffering.

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With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

In the United States, You are 32 % More Likely to Be a Victim of Violent Crime in States that have Enacted Strict Brady Gun Control Laws.

A Great Yarmouth church has been the victim of an arson attack and a religious hate crime, with a picture... More

Also, calling anyone who does something terrible «crazy» or a «nut» is insulting to people with mental illnesses, who are statistically much more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators.

Our Hate Crime Action Plan is improving the response of law enforcement and criminal justice system to these horrendous attacks, including ensuring more victims have the confidence to come forward and report such incidents.»

If they have not chosen to suffer these things, then why does God have more respect for the freedom of criminals to commit crime than he does for the freedom of their victims to go about their lives in peace and safety?

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

«Right now, the State Senate leadership is once more trying to block victims of child sex abuse from seeking justice, and protect the perpetrators of these horrible crimes.

We will bring forward other changes to make sure that more offenders directly compensate the victims of crime.

Priti Patel MP: Legislation should be introduced to give more rights to victims of crime through a new enforceable Code of Practice

The Bill is seeking to introducing legislation to give more rights to victims of crime and their families through a new enforceable Code of Practice.

More than half of UK police forces are handing over victims of crime for immigration enforcement.

Sen. Patrick Gallivan of Elma received $ 18,000 as vice chairman of the Education Committee, $ 5,500 more than he would have been be paid for chairing the Crime Victims, Crime, and Correction Committee.

It is a tough task to challenge such fascism crimes; As a victim of a series of fascism crimes associated with Udacity cofounder Sebastian Thrun along with this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler, and the likes, what I posted on the web are no more than facts, facts those fascists I challenged dare never officially deny, either publicly or in private; I bet such of their fascism crimes would not be tolerated anywhere in human society; If anyone disagree, especially those in my public challenge, please give us a candid answer right here on this board, which part in my statements is not base upon facts?

There is a form of justice which many of them take seriously — and are far more frightened of than courts, community service or even prison: restorative justice, in which offenders are confronted by their victim, or victims of similar crimes, and learn of the impact of their actions.

«The publication of the action plan and signing of the convention demonstrates the government's commitment to do more and help identify and protect the victims of this vile crime and is another step towards our other main aim to make the UK a hostile place for traffickers.»

One in five lesbian and gay people in Britain have been a victim of one or more homophobic hate crime or incident in the last three years.

As a Brooklyn rape case has grown more complicated, some members of the community have found themselves torn between a gut reaction to support the 18 - year - old alleged victim and nagging fears about a rush to judgment against the five teenagers accused of a heinous crime.

The governor also wants to expand the state's hate crimes laws to offer more protection to New Yorkers who are victims in the increased number of bias - related incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president.

Home secretary Jacqui Smith said the government was aware young people were more likely to be victims of crime rather than perpetrators of it.

«We must do more to help victims of crime in the capital.

The study concluded that gays were more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group.

Continue reading «Philip Davies MP: Ken Clarke's misguided approach on sentencing risks making thousands more people victims of crime»»

Critics of these protests have attributed police shootings to «bad apples» within police departments, or argued more black victims die at the hands of police because higher rates of violent crime in black communities lead to more interactions with police.

The other rep, Ebonee Benson, who also read Camille Cosby's heated statement after the trial on June 17, added that the statute of limitations for victims to report a sexual assault is changing, giving them more time to get reach out to officials and report a crime and violation.

Victims are lured into an online relationship through social media or pornographic websites; they are then coerced into performing sexual acts in front of the camera, the CAFC said.This ensures a better chance at developing a lasting relationship because it's built on more than merely attraction and chemistry.We believe in the quality of the introduction rather than the quantity.Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 416 -222-TIPS (8477), online at text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook.When it comes to the apps on our phones, we tend to become loyal to a select few.

Here are two of the more astonishing aspects of the military response to sexual assault: Sometimes victims are required to report the crime to the person who committed it; and women who are raped by married men are often charged with adultery while their attackers go unpunished.

Where Berlinger and Sinofsky had to make their way through the wilds of Arkansas, forging their own relationships and figuring out on the fly who was bending the truth, Berg has the story (and the testifiers to same) already in place, plus she has Jackson's money and personal interest in the case to get her access to DNA experts, forensic pathologists and FBI profilers, all of whom establish very convincingly that the three men convicted for this crime were the victims a justice system more interested in expediency than truth.

The thing that struck me about what happened to Tonya Harding in the larger realm of sports, crime, and punishment is that whether you see Harding as a victim of her circumstances, or as an accomplice in this crime: her punishment is more severe than men who have beaten, raped, or even killed their wives.

John R. Burton, a consultant for the Los Angeles County schools, predicts that more and more victims of school crime will soon be demanding compensation for injuries if schools have failed to provide a safe learning enviroment.

A 1999 U.S. Department of Education study found that schools with more than 1,000 students had far higher rates of violent student behavior than schools with fewer than 300 students, and teachers and students in small schools were far less likely to be victims of crime.

With taunting messages in backwards Latin left at the crime scenes and even more inexplicable clues like the fingerprints that appear to have been burned into one victim's throat, his handiwork bears all the hallmarks of a demonic possession.

Javelin Strategy & Research found in 2009 that more than 11 million adults in the U.S. had been victims of some form of identity crime with an aggregate loss of $ 54 billion.

Know the seven warning signs of personal loan scams to avoid being a victim in this growing crime Identity theft and personal loan scams are increasing as more of our lives go online.

Petty crime is common and you have to take steps to protect your property, but you're more likely to be the victim of a more serious crime in major American cities like Miami or Los Angeles.

Veterinarians and veterinary technicians / assistants are more qualified to examine animal victims and interpret crime scenes involving animals than investigators of human victims.

As legal cases involving animal crimes become more complex, the annual OHS Victim to Verdict conference is an opportunity for attorneys, veterinarians, vet techs, law enforcement officers and animal shelter staff to sharpen their knowledge of the law and bring stronger cases against animal offenders.

Page Ulrey — a senior deputy prosecuting attorney in Seattle's King County — discusses the genesis of courthouse dogs, which are used to make children and others more comfortable when testifying or being interviewed about sexual assaults or other emotionally upsetting crimes: Based on experience with her son's service dog, a colleague thought service dogs could provide comfort to children and others who are victims or witnesses of crimes, and this dovetailed with a period when Ulrey was ready to add a dog to her life.

To suggest that coastlines aren't quite as perilous as green activists claim, that the government shouldn't be picking winners, or that cheaper energy might be more helpful to poor people than mitigating climate change was to «deny science», and to be victim of some horrific right wing ideology that would make Hitler's crimes against humanity look like a summer picnic... Climate sceptics were inviting certain doom.

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As a witness and the victim of a violent crime — that was never shared with my own social circle - the shock and sick horror of finding that a search of my own rare and unique name (not the one above) drew not only only this old information — could not be any more personal; horrific or shaming, but attached to searches / links of family members & relatives who shared the same last name.

Rape costs a lot more than just emotional and career opportunities... I hope future victims of the crime are empowered to retain legal counsel.

The penalties may be more severe if you used a firearm, injured a victim, or committed the crime for the benefit of a criminal street gang.

After conducting advanced analysis on the data obtained, being a victim of a sexual crime was shown to be a significant predictor of juror behaviour in rape cases, with the research revealing that jurors with personal experience of victimisation were four times more likely to convict in court, prior to deliberations taking place.

The actions of policing bodies towards community members, and more specifically, towards «victims» of crime, has been impossible to litigate in Ontario.

Realistically, either State A or State B could prosecute for conspiracy to murder as an additional charge, because the conspiracy clearly spanned more than one state, even if they can't prove where the crime was committed, although physical evidence (e.g. traces of camp sites, footprints, testimony about landmarks, evidence of poop with human DNA from the victim in it), would usually make it possible to show that some part of the crime was committed in the state.

The proposals, set out in Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders, include: rewarding early admissions of guilt with up to 50 % reduction in sentence; increased use of restorative justice measures; introducing reforms to make offenders directly compensate victims of crime; and simplifying the sentencing framework so that judges have more discretionary powers.