Sentences with phrase «victims of crimes such»

The victim of a crime such as assault, robbery, impaired driving, arson or other acts of a similar nature may be eligible for compensation.

If you live in an area with high crime rates, you'll probably pay more for auto and homeowners coverage, since you are more likely to be a victim of crimes such as theft and vandalism.

Not exact matches

«Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing 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...

It is indeed praiseworthy for victims of crime to forgive their debtors, but such personal pardon does not absolve offenders from their obligations in justice.

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.

Our Hate Crime Action Plan is improving the response of law enforcement and criminal justice system to these horrendous attacks, including ensuring more victims have the confidence to come forward and report such incidents.»

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.

The Libertarian Party's platform reads «we favor the repeal of all laws creating «crimes» without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes.»

Four fifths of the public and victims of crime saw community sentences as a «soft punishment», and 90 % of police officers thought offenders saw such sentences as a soft punishment.

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

«Once again justice has been denied to so many victims of such heinous crimes.

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?

Flint raised the issue again later in an adjournment debate tonight, arguing that singling out rape defendants for anonymity carried the clear inference that rape victims were less reliable, less credible and less trustworthy than victims of other violent crimes, such as domestic violence or child abuse.

They were shown cards with pictures of a person's face with a neutral expression along with corresponding cards comprising images designed to evoke strong negative emotions such as those of injured soldiers, and victims of car crashes and violent crimes.

Tali Sharot, a University College London neurology researcher, and her colleagues asked 19 individuals between the ages of 19 and 27 to estimate their odds of experiencing 80 unfavorable events, such as contracting various diseases or being the victim of a crime.

Studies have shown that a victim of a crime may remember a specific piece of information from the horrid event, such as the attacker's jacket or a strange smell, but fail to recall other details.

Experts say that similar techniques could be employed in many other ways, such as analyzing the DNA of South American mummies or crime victims.

Such capabilities could become a crucial component of fighting human trafficking, a crime with low conviction rates, primarily because of strategies that traffickers use to disguise their victims» identities (pdf).

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Miles of Falcon, a specialist police cyber crime and fraud unit, said victims of such scams were being «ruthlessly manipulated» by fake lovers.

According to FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), 4,467 people reported being the victim of such crimes in 2012.

And while women's rights advocates such as Betty Friedan took exception to the lurid premise of female victims being skinned alive (based on the real - life crimes of Ed Gein, who also was an inspiration for «Psycho»), a closer viewing will reveal it is probably one of the most feminist - forward - thinking horror movies ever made.

This outcome made perfect sense to most of the people in the courtroom, such as the Judge (Annie Corley), the District Attorney (Bruce McGill), Prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) and his assistant, Sarah (Leslie Bibb), but it never sat well with Clyde, the victim of the crime.

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

These working dogs are often used in therapeutic environments such as assisting with teaching children experiencing learning disabilities and as stress - reducers with victims of accidents, crimes and natural disasters / crises.

There is little worse than being stranded in a foreign country with no money, and such policies will ensure that should the traveller be the victim of crime they won't be left out of pocket.

There can also be heightened fear in such communities of the social factors of safety, such as fear of being a victim of crime or harassed by police.

A person also might suffer injuries as the victim of a violent crime, such as a robbery, on the premises of an amusement attraction, and the owner or operator also may be liable for those injuries when they were negligent in providing proper security.

That means keeping equipment in good working order, securing objects such as free weights that could cause injury if left lying around, cleaning up puddles of water and spills in locker rooms, and making sure there's adequate security so that patrons don't become the victims of violent crimes.

To obtain such compensation it is necessary for the child to be classified as the victim of a crime, committed when it was a foetus.

This can include nations claiming jurisdiction over crimes in nearby bodies of water and to specific categories of crimes (such as sexual offenses against underage victims) committed by or against citizens while abroad.

All the same feelings that victims of actual crimes — such as muggings and robberies and burglaries — feel.

But, in U.S. criminal law, even when a victim's lack of consent is an element of the crime, such as for the crimes of theft or rape, criminal liability can not be eliminated by having the victim ratify the perpetrator's conduct after the fact.

The chances of being a victim of a violent crime in Spring Valley, such as aggravated assault, rape, murder, or armed robbery, is 1 in 250.

The chances of being a victim of a property crime in Spring Valley, such as grand theft auto, arson, burglary, and theft, is 3.25 in 250.

HB 5364 of 2015 provided that that in any criminal prosecution involving an alleged violent crime and testimony from a victim of such crime, such victim shall be permitted to be accompanied by a therapy dog while testifying in the criminal prosecution, provided such dog is not visible to the jury.

This includes mental health information, details of contact with local police, details such as providing evidence as a witness or as a victim of a crime, or details of non-criminal contact with police during a mental health crisis.

Economic crimes differ from ordinary financial misconduct, as economic crimes are initially directed towards the economic policy of the state and cause harm to its financial interests, whereas financial crimes have an impact on the victim, such as stealing money from individuals, so neither does it achieve economic progress and growth for himself, or for the benefit of the national economy.

Another example of a premises liability case is when an invitee, such as a customer, is a victim of crime, due to the negligence of the owner in not providing adequate security.

Travelers staying at hotels can become victims of thieves looking for valuables, or even violent crimes such as assault or rape.

(d) A parent entitled to the legal custody or residency of a child pursuant to K.S.A. 60 - 1610 and amendments thereto shall not be required to give the notice required by this section to the other parent when the other parent has been convicted of any crime specified in article 34, 35 or 36 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated in which the child is the victim of such crime.

If you were injured by slipping and falling at a sports stadium or arena, were the victim of a violent crime such as an assault, or were injured by an intoxicated person who was sold alcohol at the stadium, a personal injury lawyer can discuss with you whether you might have a claim for compensation.

Several government supported programs, such as Employment Insurance and Crime Victim Services, have a right of subrogation attached to them.

It makes a claim about lawyers, and what we do, that means that when lawyers do the things they are actually required to do — such as cross-examine victims of a crime to challenge their credibility — those lawyers can not use the statement of their professional duties to explain and justify their conduct.

She suggests that the portrayal of women in the media, the tendency to blame victims and the misconceptions surrounding the crime of rape help create such myths.

Sexual assault cases are less likely to result in guilty verdicts than other violent crimes, often due to issues such as lack of evidence and notions of victim unreliability.

In that decision, he remarked on the devastating effect the sexual assault trial will have on both the victim and the accused: for the victim, the humiliating prospect of describing her most intimate details and, for the accused, the prospect of a long period of incarceration if convicted and, if acquitted, the taint of being suspected of such a horrific crime.

A basis for the exercise of state jurisdiction over an individual in respect of a criminal act regardless of the location of the act or the nationality of the individual or victim; invoked only in connection with serious international crimes such

Fellows and law students will provide legal services, outreach, and education to address legal needs resulting from human trafficking and a variety of civil legal issues arising from victimization, such as family law, education, employment, immigration, and consumer protection, as well as enforcing crime victims» rights.

The final rule permits a covered health care provider providing emergency health care in response to a medical emergency, other than such emergency on the premises of the covered health care provider, to disclose protected health information to a law enforcement official if such disclosure appears necessary to alert law enforcement to (1) the commission and nature of a crime, (2) the location of such crime or of the victim (s) of such crime, and (3) the identity, description, and location of the perpetrator of such crime.