Sentences with phrase «relying on the criminal justice system»

Instead we rely on our criminal justice system to identify, penalize and, hopefully, reform wrongdoers.

Not exact matches

Another area of the criminal justice system that relies on human judgment is the arraignment — when a suspect has been arrested but not yet charged and a judge has to decide whether to release or lock up the alleged offender until his or her next court date.

Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color «criminals» and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

Instead of relying on the Canadian criminal justice system to punish serious offenders in accordance with the law, to rehabilitate offenders, and working to reintegrate them into society, the federal government will deport potentially dangerous individuals to countries where they could pursue further violence against Canada and others.

A fair and just criminal justice system relies on all of its parts to operate perfectly.

Finally, we rely on the government to make these changes in an effort to enhance the criminal justice system while preserving the protections of those whose liberty is at risk.

Drawing upon some of the materials embedded in the social justice accounts of tort law, [16] Part IV clarifies why creating an intermediate retributive sanction under the right safeguards to the tort system is a superior way of punishing and preventing misconduct than strictly relying on compensatory damages, class actions for compensatory damages, extra-compensatory damages for victim - vindication, the criminal justice system as we know it, or even a privately enforced criminal justice system.