Sentences with phrase «on victims of crime»

She's honored to be on the inside of the news operation she regularly watched — whether she's reporting on victims of crime, covering politics in South Florida or sorting through the breaking news of the night.

In addition to the negative effects they can have on victims of crime when their expectations are not met, victim impact statements can also detrimentally impact the offender.

Not exact matches

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»

Nearly half of all hate crimes reported in Canada in 2015 targeted victims based on race and religion

Making sure that you are not the victim of a crime while away should be on top of anyone's list who is leaving for a trip.

Unfortunately, the NDP Government chose to shut down that debate even when hundreds of victims of rural crime from across Alberta came to the Legislature to see a meaningful debate on the issue

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...

It seems that when a crime has been committed that there often is a lot of attention from authority on the perpetrator but frequently not much support provided for recovery for the effect of a crime for the victim.

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Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

They fear Obama because he is smart enough to prosecute the Bush Adm. for War Crimes and every infraction beneath that horrible charge, including the second occurrence of «Super Grand Larceny - on - Steroids» the first occurrence, the state of Texas Savings and Loan fell victim.

A woman who was horrifically assaulted, bound, and had her home set on fire has been declared a victim of hate crime, say Lincoln, Neb police, who also said the woman's home was graffitied with sexual slurs and derogatory slang.

My point, who cares, your religion is not what I want deciding if we need jobs or a way to create them or how victims of crime who are uninsured get medical bills paid or using your religion to decide who deserves what time in prison and who gets a slap on teh wrist.

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

Now with Panama invaded, we Latin American Christians feel indignant when we hear the count on North American victims of an operation that was planned with evil intentions and hypocrisy, and yet nothing is said about the hundreds or thousands of Afro - Indo - Latin American lives... destroyed physically or psychologically by such an abominable adventure, which is a repetition of past crimes in Santo Domingo, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador... etc., in an endless list.

Most of them have voted to treat assaults on pregnant women as crimes with one victim rather than two.

A woman who was horrifically assaulted, bound, and had her home set on fire has been declared a victim of hate crime, say Lincoln, Neb police, who also said the...

Now, after much discussion on the previous page with Austin on the crimes committed against humanity in Uganda, he still doesn't show any signs of sympathy for the victims, but writes «the dude in uganda is a psychotic retarded satanic attack on nothing of any value».

Condor has taken on added significance in recent years as victims of the dictatorships, their families and foreign governments seek to bring torturers and killers to justice, beginning with Pinochet's 1998 temporary detention in England on a Spanish warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.

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.

If you really and truly thing that the Gibbons travesty is the exact same situation as PSU, Baylor, and MSU, that all crimes exist on a level field, regardless of context (or, jesus, the sheer number of victims), then I don't know what we're doing here.

Recent recommendations made in a report on Personal Internet Security by the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee, many of which are backed by the FSB, include increased research into e-crime as well as e-crime victims having the opportunity to report Internet crime to the police and to receive a crime number in return, just like any other type of crime.

In April, the Metropolitan Police admitted they passed on information about victims and witnesses of crime to the Home Office.

So, an average citizen bases their favorable view of him on the fact that unless they are involved with the drug trade, they are 13x times less likely to be a victim of a rogue crime that's part of war drugs; than a non-victim of a crime that war on drugs is percieved to have prevented.

Stymied on his top immigration initiatives, Trump is making good on one plan that critics denounce as fearmongering and misleading: opening an office for victims of crimes committed by immigrants, although studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native - born citizens.

State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, the chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections committee, said the public's perception of youthful offenders depends on the types of crimes they commit.

And it would add crimes based on a victim's gender to the category of hate crimes.

However, asked if the Met were overzealous, Johnson said: «If you talk to people who worry about knife crimes, if you talk to the families of victims of knife crime, I think people will broadly support the idea that if you go out on the streets of London carrying a knife then you have to face the fact you may very well be stopped and searched and you may very well face serious consequences.

With critics questioning its legality, a Republican lawmaker on Monday announced she is refusing the $ 12,500 bonus she's getting as vice chair of the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction.

It was introduced in recognition of National Crime Victims» Rights Week in April as a result of vicious hate crimes, including this year's bias attacks against five elderly Asian Americans in Manhattan and a Mexican man on Staten Island, and last year's vicious beating of gay College Point resident Jack Price.

Quinn called on State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman for enforcement of the harshest penalties in sex crime cases and pledged to protect funding for the city's Sexual Assault Response Teams, which provide forensic exams and counseling services to sexual assault victims at hospitals.

Meanwhile, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu has called on Nigerian workers to join in the fight against corruption as they are the greatest victims of the mismanagement of the nation's wealth.

For example when people are the victims of a violent crime, they can tend to focus on narrow things, such as a weapon.

In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from Politics.co.uk, the Met admitted passing on details of both victims and witnesses of crime if there were concerns over their immigration status.

Unity House of Troy, the lead agency in the coalition, has worked for the last 4 years with Samaritan Hospital's Office of Sexual Assault and Crime Victim's Assistance (part of St. Peter's Health Care Partners), and the Independent Living Center of the Hudson Valley, to educate providers on creating services that are disability appropriate.

-- Miscarriage of justice is going on, and that's why neither Sebastian Thrun nor Gabriele Scheler have been arrested or imprisoned so far, while I as a victim am further victimized by their retaliatory fascism crimes; the case remain mystified and incomplete so far; and at this stage, the real problems are coming from the judicial system; Justice has not been done;

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?

Would anyone like to be living in a society under the jurisdiction of some malicious and cowardice officers (namely ZZZ / YYY / VVV, they must have power of jurisdiction over civilians of Santa Clara county) who hided their identities from us while colluding with those fascists to cover up their fascism crimes and at the same time retaliate on victims?

On the second day of her trial for «crimes against humanity», Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo denounced a political trial and said she was victim of «attempted rape» during her arrest in April 2011.

EU citizens also enjoy legal protections of the EU law, [7] specifically the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection of personal data, rights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.

At 7 p.m., Hochul accepts an award on behalf of the governor and makes an announcement at the Crime Victims Center's Parents for Megan's Law «Champions for Children» Gala, IBEW Hall, 370 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge, Long Island.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice has released her third TV ad of the Democratic AG primary campaign, which highlights her effort to help create «The Safe Place,» a multidisciplinary center for victims of child abuse and domestic violence and a pledge that she'll support a bill to make luring a child on the Internet a felony crime.

Also at noon, Ama Dwimoh — former chief of the Crimes Agains t Children Bureau in the Kings County District Attorney's Office and candidate in the race for the open Brooklyn District Attorney's seat — will join advocates on Friday in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall to call for the immediate passage of the Child Victims Act in the State Legislature.

«I am committed to tackle this evil crime and help protect the innocent victims it yields, which is why today I have signed the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Human Trafficking which will provide us with a structured framework to introduce minimum rights and protection for all identified victims of trafficking,» said Mr Reid.

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.

«The CRC is giving Floridians the opportunity to vote «yes» on several important issues including ethics reform in government, rights for victims of crime, prohibiting oil drilling in state waters, and necessary education reforms,» Chairman

Christopher Bromson, a trauma specialist who runs the Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York City, spoke at one of many events held Tuesday at the Capitol to draw attention to the bill and put pressure on lawmakers.

By contrast, Cooper made some good interventions, proactively generating stories over Labour's policies towards the assets of criminals and exposing the government's poor record on waiting times for victims of crime.