Sentences with phrase «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.

Clarke's liberal penal policies irritated the Tory rank - and - file, who have never trusted the former chancellor because of his europhile outlook.

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.

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.

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

This is bullying and intimidation as 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.

Chris Grayling's draconian approach to penal policy means violence is making a come - back.

Instead Grayling has retreated into a Dickensian penal policy - the equivalent of an old general reading the Telegraph with his breakfast and spluttering about political correctness.

Kenneth Clarke The Tory right may be screaming for his head, yet his enlightened approach to prison reform may set penal policy in a direction that actually works.

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

Sumption argues that by giving legal effect to the Human Rights Convention in UK law, certain policy matters — particularly including penal policy, freedom of expression and immigration — have been transferred out of the political arena into the realm of judicial decision making where public accountability has no place.

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.

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.

«We've got a different view about our penal policy than Chris Grayling.

Back in 2011 Sumption observed in the F.A. Mann Lecture that the incorporation of the ECHR, into English law, through the Act, significantly shifted the boundaries between political and legal decision making, some of which raise major political issues such as immigration, penal policy, security, policing, privacy and freedom of expression.

However, the court could accept that the maintaining of public confidence in the penal system had a role to play in the development of penal policy.

The neo-liberal countries had the highest imprisonment rates with conservative - corporatist, then social - democratic and finally oriental - corporatist countries on a descending scale towards moderation in 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.

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