Sentences with phrase «tough on crime»

And self - proclaimed «tough on crime» Sens. John Rafferty, R - Montgomery County, and Mike Regan, R - York County, were also present, proclaiming their support for the additional proposed allocations.

Early indications from trials in Australia suggest that adopting a local justice reinvestment approach will pay bigger long - term dividends than a «tough on crime» approach.

The Law Council of Australia said the key recommendations should be urgently implemented, and that the «report further demonstrated «tough on crime» approaches do not work».

Texas, and other US states, had shifted away from «tough on crime» policies because they could no longer afford the prison costs, and adopted Justice Reinvestment approaches, he said.

There are sceptics, and the facility is currently being challenged to the hilt by «unintended consequences» of tough on crime policies that have changed the mix of the facility, but the College — championed by then Victorian Coalition Community Services Minister Mary Wooldridge — has put education at the heart of rehabilitation for young offenders.

Enact your watchdog roles; hold governments to account; and maintain a strong spotlight on not only the problems caused by «tough on crime» rhetoric and «law and order» policies, but also on the solutions to over-incarceration.

Florida's 2016 legislative session featured some notable successes for those who, like the three of us, are committed to «tough on crime» policies.

I wonder if the new tough on crime agenda by the federal Conservatives covers this horrific crime?

While the Feds continue to ratchet up the «get tough on crime» rhetoric, defence lawyers will continue to fight back with a fresh slate of courtroom challenges.

I suggest that although this notion that laws cause social change still persists — our government changes the Criminal Code to «get tough on crime,» for example — it's force has been on the wane since the sixties.

If a judicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary will suffer.

Arsenault noted the Harper government has made being tough on crime a motto and has brought in mandatory minimums for drug offences.

«Politicians have voted for mandatory minimum sentences so they could appear «tough on crime» to their constituents.

(If you want to remind yourself of how a tough on crime regime can harm people, particularly racialized communities, you can read my post on the movie 13th.)

If you could provide references to those who think that being tough on crime will result in a society entirely free of crime, that would be much appreciated.

In Dredd's dystopian future, society has descended into a level of lawlessness that necessitated a somewhat different «get tough on crime» approach than what we in Canada might be used to.

See the Lawson studies at: CORRECTIONS: TOUGH ON CRIME PHILOSPHY by ROBERT G. LAWSON Discussion of the effect of Tough On Crime sentencing policies on the public - and CORRECTIONS: TURNING JAILS INTO PRISONS - BY ROBERT G. LAWSON — Collateral Damage from Kentucky's War on Crime3) Ethics Code for Governors Executive Office Staff: We suggest that the Governor impose a simple ethics code for all members of his executive office, that mandates respect for the law, particularly the Merit System.

These laws aren't tough on crime.

Today, in the case of Canada (Attorney General) v. Whaling, 2014 SCC 20, the Supreme Court of Canada pushed back against one small element of the government's «tough on crime» agenda, namely, the retroactive abolition of early parole for offenders already serving their sentences.

While the Canadian Civil Liberties Association supports the overarching goal of Bill C - 46, we view many of the suggested changes as a continuation of previous ill - advised, and at times unconstitutional, government «tough on crime» criminal justice reforms that would do little or nothing to combat impaired driving.

Like the Kyoto protocol, like keeping around a monolithic old copier / fax machine, like the tough on crime agenda, for profit education, and non use of perfectly good technologies that makes life, and legal practice, easier and better.

It remains to be seen how our courts will apply the Charter to the Conservatives» tough on crime bill.

The same study notes that judicial campaign ads most often use a «soft on crime vs. tough on crime» theme, leading incumbent judges to demonstrate to voters their willingness to impose the harshest penalty — death.

Both liberals and the tough on crime crowd (google John Bradley in Texas and his buddy Rick Perry) to see that the ultra-conservatives are no closer to reality than (gasp) libertarians.

Federal government's «tough on crime» agenda could cost Alberta up to $ 18 million a year, Calgary Herald

This is the prime minister who cautioned against drugs, implemented unnecessary mandatory minimums for minor drug offences, tried to paint Justin Trudeau as a dangerous pusher, and clouded himself in a «tough on crime» bubble, yet in a most telling revealing strip tease, he embraced Rob and Doug Ford.

Soon after, the newspaper published an article about his hardline approach signaling a shift in a second «tough on crime» wave, and the governor called him to compliment his service and indicate that he was the model for future bench appointments.

As one might expect, the RSA is overflowing with «get tough on crime» language and continues the predictable tradition now enshrined in Canadian law to increase penalties for impaired driving offences at every opportunity.

I'm going to resist the comparison to the government's get tough on crime approach beyond saying that I've dealt with full penalty boxes before.

Given the Conservative government's program of «getting tough on crime,» the Economist's piece from Thursday, «Rough Justice in America: Too many laws, too many prisoners ``, might be of special interest up here in Canada.

Each time, the abandonment of a nuanced fact - based approach to sentencing in which our appointed Judges were trusted to carefully balance the mitigating and aggravating factors has been justified by resort to alarmist pleas about the overriding necessity to «get tough on crime».

Isn't it about time we traded base - serving platitudes like «getting tough on crime» with genuinely getting smart on crime?

Nothing says «get tough on crime» quite like slapping a juicy minimum jail sentence onto the offence of the day.

Canadians shouldn't settle for policies that look tough on crime while being both inefficient and dangerous.

Being tough on crime does not mean using policies that have proven to be faulty and dangerous.

In a previous entry, I discussed the imposition of a mandatory victim fine surcharge in reference to the conservative party's tough on crime agenda.

In an effort to appear tough on crime, it is not unheard of for a prosecutor to charge a simple bar fight as an aggravated assault.

Yet what did the judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (led by «tough on crime» Edith Jones) do?

Biden on Crime — Professor Doug Berman points out that Biden has been ahead of the curve on some sentencing issues, but also agrees with Jeralyn Merritt that Biden will toe the requisite «tough on crime» party line.

This is where a fiscally responsible government proves it is tough on crime because nothing is tougher on criminals, than beating crimes before they happen.

Getting tough on crime can not come at the expense of getting smart on crime.

The real pickle arises when Johnny Canuck says to one level of government «Be tough on crime!»

PW: If they want to be tough on crime, they should be tough on the shark finners.

The Minister of Justice has made statements about being tough on crime.

Listen to NPR's February 8, 2011 broadcast of «N.M. Governor Tough On Crime, Easy on Business» where WildEarth Guardians» Executive Director, John Horning, discusses the environmental impacts of Governor Martinez's relation with polluters.

It's time to get tough on crime in Prison Architect.Catherine is back this week as we build to maximum security in the 12th episode of the podcast.

For too long, «tough on crime» policies have deliberately targeted our black, brown, and working class communities — ICE is tearing apart families, our youth are being criminalized in school and treated as adults by our overzealous criminal justice system, and the legal system's reliance on cash bail continues to overcrowd our prisons, keeping the House of Correction facility open despite its notoriety for its decrepit conditions.

The «tough on crime» legislation of the last 30 years has, according to prison education advocates, created a sort of lost generation.

All for a good arrest record, which not only serves to line the county coffers via federal funds, but keeps the D.A.'s «tough on crime» credo in the spotlight - and, ugliest of all, satisfies his predudice against people of color.

The office of Ulster County District Attorney needs to be fair but tough on crime.