For example, the New York Bar Association's recent report on New York City's progress in reducing its jail population cited the following initiatives as driving successful criminal justice reform: early release for prisoners under new, less harsh sentencing guidelines, de-escalation trainings for police officers, and expanded re-entry programs focusing on employment, education and mental health.
Lanham told jurors he thought it was safe to overtake, but admitted: "I think it was an error of judgement". Also imposing an 18-month driving ban, Mr Justice William Davis told him: "You took a risk.
Because the organization can play a catalyst role and be the driving force of justice, equality, peace, stability and above all hope -- hope for a better future and a more united world.
And what we see over and over again in communities all over the country is discrimination in housing, healthcare, education, and criminal justice driving large numbers of people of color into homelessness.
Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.
He has set himself the unenviable mission of driving social and environmental justice into the heart of the US economy.
"If this trend continues, it could be a real change in the most important vector that has been driving the American criminal justice system for 30 years," said Franklin Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.
David Anderson QC told parliament's joint human rights committee on Tuesday that he could not know whether the US was the driving force behind the justice and security bill but, after a series of conversations during a visit to America, he concluded: "I am quite sure they had something to do with it".
Instead, the lack of justice is driving the sides further apart, he said.
The by-election was called after former Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne resigned as an MP after he admitted perverting the course of justice over driving licence points.
