Sentences with phrase «of public drunkenness»

Increases in incarceration rates for robbery offences have been the most dramatic of recent years; Indigenous women comprise nearly 80 per cent of public drunkenness offences; and fine defaulting remains a significant factor in incarceration rates.

this is neither an admission of public drunkenness nor an indication of imminent danger to the public (unlike, say, «Do you intend to drive home in this state?»)

Not exact matches

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

Observer, I choose not to support society's so - called morality when it deems moral things like the murder of babies in the womb, sodomy, drunkenness, getting high, public nudity, po.rnogr.aphy... Yeah, society sure has come a long way.

If it were generally recognized that habitual drunkenness is a symptom of a disease that is both personally and socially devastating, and if it were generally accepted that frequent use of alcohol as a means of interpersonal adjustment can lead to alcoholism, a new climate of public opinion would come into being.

To deal with shortages of volunteers working the gambling ventures, Cuomo wants to lift barriers that prohibit people with certain criminal backgrounds — such as a public drunkenness charge when they were a teenager — from working at a bingo parlor.

Residents have protested the shelter from the very beginning, claiming it is too close to the elementary school P.S. 75 and has contributed to quality - of - life issues such as vandalism, public drunkenness, noise disruption and thefts.

As a matter of public policy, people will generally not be allowed to use drunkenness as a defence to an intentional assault.

The inappropriate musings of former justice Robin Camp, the donning of a «Make America great again» hat in court by another judge, the unprecedented public attack on a judge who opined on the issue of drunkenness and consent or the recent casual «I like to sleep in my own bed» comment from the bench taken out of context have all fed an unsavoury and unfocused attack on the judiciary itself.

This class is for persons who have been charged with possession of controlled substance or open intoxicants, public drunkenness or any offense involving alcohol / drugs that are not related to driving under the influence.

Key factors identified by the Royal Commission in this regard were the often petty nature of much contact with the police and the way that this contact escalated into more serious offending and contact — with particular concern expressed at the «crucial importance which detention for public drunkenness occupies in Aboriginal custodial over-representation», [8] as well as other forms of public order regulation.

This may be the least surprising series of developments on Jersey Shore, well aside from Snooki getting arrested for public drunkenness.