Sentence examples for fewer convictions from inspiring English sources

Perhaps more pressing is the need for an overhaul of the criminal-justice system, which at present seems to produce fewer convictions than ministers.

A test of "innocence" will lead to fewer referrals from the CCRC, fewer convictions being overturned; and offers fewer protections for the integrity of the system.

Crime has risen almost constantly for many decades, and yet the criminal justice system now delivers fewer detections and fewer convictions than it did 15 years ago.

With qualified and adequately paid representation, cost-effective alternatives to incarceration are identified and fewer convictions are reversed because of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Some of the state's success comes from its graduated licensing law, "but the kids who take driver education are outperforming kids who didn't take it," Mr. Costales said, with about 12 percent fewer crashes, 20 percent fewer convictions for driving offenses and about 50 percent fewer suspended licenses.

These days, we have "racism without racists", as the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva puts it, which means that we have more and more black victims – indeed, a veritable wall of names and faces – and fewer and fewer convictions of their killers, who are allowed to fade away.

There have been very few convictions.

Military commissions have secured frustratingly few convictions.

All the delays result in very few convictions and hangings.

He is smooth, has no clear ideology and few convictions; but he does have political intuition.

In a system governed by power, money and influence, there have been few convictions.