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The Restorative Justice Council - «the national voice for restorative practice» - said it should be «available for all victims of crime who want it, subject to a risk assessment by a trained restorative justice professional».

Victims of crime who suffer a financial loss as a result of criminal conduct have the right to seek financial compensation in the form of court ordered restitution from an offender.

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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.

Not exact matches

In appropriate cases, small business owners who have been victims of crime can use the power of the criminal judicial system to recover financial losses at little or no additional expense.

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.

Making a foolish decision doesn't mean that the person who takes advantage of the foolish decision less culpable for the crime, or make the victim responsible.

This is particularly important for inner city residents who are disproportionately victims of violent crime.

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...

Obviously this Unknown person never knew anyone who was a victim of a crime.

Victims of crime and those who read about crimes have legitimate fears.

Also, calling anyone who does something terrible «crazy» or a «nut» is insulting to people with mental illnesses, who are statistically much more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators.

«Heal those who have been wounded by the activities of others, especially the victims of crime.

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.

It was we who continued our age - old crime of scapegoating an innocent victim to appease our own guilty conscience.

The victims disappear, and we become guilty of the same crime as those who crucified Jesus.

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.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin» in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.

25:44), beating slaves (Exodus 21:20), incest (Genesis 19:33 - 36), r@pe victims being required to marry the r@pist (Deuteronomy 22:28 - 29), treating women and children as property (Genesis 19:8, 1 Timothy 2:11 - 14, 1 Corinthians 14:33 - 35), requires battered women to remain married to abusive husbands (Matthew 19:9, 1 Corinthians 7:10 - 12), condones jihad type warfare where all children are ki11ed save the virgins who are a «reward» (Numbers 31:15), and makes no mention at all of child molestation, the worst possible crime.

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...

Amid its hodgepodge of topics — female war correspondents, the decorating challenged, moms who are mean to their kids, crime victims who forgive their assailants, and, oh yes, the quest to lose weight — Oprah stresses a message: Make yourself happy.

When you are the victim of a violent crime the person who allegedly committed the crime is ordered by the court to stay away from you until the matter is resolved.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

Evans — who spent two and a half years in prison for the crime he would later be cleared of committing — being found not guilty does not mean the alleged victim lied.

Home office minister Vernon Coaker countered that the vast majority of rapes are committed by men who know their victims, «so this type of rape is the biggest problem we have to deal with - not something to be dismissed as a lesser crime».

The memory of people who have witnessed or been victims of crime is prone to errors which law officials must take into account.

But also that the chief victims of crime are the poor themselves, those who, as he put it, can afford neither high hedges nor security systems.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

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.

This month, in the very week when claims of abuse in football dominated national news headlines, the Home Office published their key policy document which described how service commissioners should provide for men and boys who are victims of sexual violence, domestic abuse and other intimate crimes.

De Blasio also warned that Trump's actions could sunder what delicate links exist between undocumented immigrants and the NYPD, making victims of crime and those who could provide valuable evidence hesitant to contact police.

We can not see into the minds of those who committed these crimes to know how far the ethnicity of their victims was a motivating factor.

«It's shocking to now learn that people who have fallen victim to a crime or who are doing their public duty by volunteering as a witness are running the risk of immigration action.

Their presence at courthouses intimidates immigrants who might be witnesses in a case, or victims of a crime.

The settlement was negotiated by the state, Lopez's attorney and Gloria Allred, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who is often representing high profile victims of sex crimes.

The honest legal practitioners who are the victims of these crimes and injustices have a duty to expose those tarnishing the image of the rest of us!

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?

The NYPD revealed that the city has witnessed a 115 percent increase in bias crimes since Trump triumphed over Clinton last month, and also paid tribute to one of the victims — a Muslim cop who became the victim of threats while off - duty in Brooklyn.

And preventing crime means intervening early in domestic disputes to prevent escalation, it means supporting the vulnerable person who could become a victim of crime, it means tackling anti-social behaviour, it means providing effective public order policing.

«Tackling youth crime is complex and there are no magic solutions but I am determined to make London a safer city for everyone, including young people, who are frequently victims of crime,» he added.

«The people who say they're against this bill need to look victims of serious crime, terrorism and child sex offences in the eye and tell them why they're not prepared to give the police the powers they need to protect the public,» she said.

Craft says owners of establishments who would like their employees trained in helping to prevent sexual assault may contact her at the county's Crime Victims Assistance Program office: [phone]

«The truth is, Eric Schneiderman is a father and leading victims advocate who has voted for many civil confinement bills, but with this particular one, Eric shared the concerns of major organizations like the NYC Bar Association and the Downstate Crime Victims Coalition, who all feared the bill was too broadly written and might be misavictims advocate who has voted for many civil confinement bills, but with this particular one, Eric shared the concerns of major organizations like the NYC Bar Association and the Downstate Crime Victims Coalition, who all feared the bill was too broadly written and might be misaVictims Coalition, who all feared the bill was too broadly written and might be misapplied.

«But it's finding homes for out victims, who are homeless as a result of (a) crime.

He has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights who blocked equal - marriage legislation and sought to remove LGBT victims from the country's listed hate crimes laws.

The governor also wants to expand the state's hate crimes laws to offer more protection to New Yorkers who are victims in the increased number of bias - related incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president.

The law also prohibits asking about the «immigration status of an individual, including a crime victim, a witness, or a person who calls or approaches the police seeking assistance, unless necessary to investigate criminal activity by that individual.»

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.

Gallivan, who chairs the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections committee and is vice chair of the Education Committee, at first referred questions to Flanagan.

Other potential Democratic candidates include David Calone, a venture capitalist who also worked as a federal prosecutor; William Wexler, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who shares offices with Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer; Tad Scharfenberg, a defense attorney and former county prosecutor who ran for district attorney in 1997; James Chalifoux, deputy bureau chief of the district attorney's major crimes bureau; Maureen McCormick, a top Nassau prosecutor who lives in Huntington; and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan's Law, an advocacy group for victims of sexual assault.