Sentences with phrase «of penal policy»

But the insidious effect of recent criminal legislation and the effect of its application is to isolate sections of society and to apply disproportionately the weight of penal policy.

On the second issue, the court acknowledged that although maintaining public confidence in the penal system had a role to play in the development of penal policy and that punishment was a legitimate aim of imprisonment, these were not the only important considerations.

This is not the place for a discussion of penal policy, but the picture a person has of how God acts will affect his or her view of how society should act.

Not exact matches

It remains to be seen what Gove is prepared to do on this - but it is important to note Cameron has his own priors when it comes to hanging justice secretaries out to dry when they run into trouble with the press, large sections of which continue to oppose a more liberal penal policy.

And yet Crook is right: addressing the inmate / officer ratio is a precondition of a liberal, evidence - based penal policy.

Instead, he backed down in the face of backbench demands and installed Chris Grayling, who ran a mind - bogglingly wrong - headed penal policy.

The practice has emerged as one of the most salient subjects of debate in contemporary penal policy.

While accepting that maintaining confidence played a role in developing penal policy, it was not appropriate for prisoners» rights to be forfeited solely on the basis of public opinion.

The expertise of the professional bureaucracy — civil servants, policy advisers, penal system officials, prosecutors — is better respected and more influential.

The policy was said to reflect the maintenance of public confidence in the penal system and the welfare of any child conceived as a result of artificial insemination.

However, the court underlined the evolution in European penal policy towards the increasing relative importance of the rehabilitative aim of imprisonment, particularly towards the end of a long prison sentence.

«A Ministry of Justice could concentrate on reducing crime and running an effective penal system without being diverted by constant crises in security and immigration policy.

Security and penal policy, perhaps understandably, is something of an obsession for the DUP.

LIC for example, extended its grace period for the customers to pay their premiums of several policies without any penal fee for a period of 20 days after the scheme was introduced.