Criminalization

Bills in directly target transgender and nonbinary individuals through bathroom bans, restrictions on gender-affirming care, sports bans, and the criminalization of healthcare providers who support trans patients.

Province’s criminalization of Wet’suwet’en land defenders is beyond shameful and egregious: BC.

The Police Free LAUSD Coalition recently released a entitled, “From Criminalization to Education: A Community Vision for Safe Schools in LAUSD,” which outlined recommendations for the district to invest in community alternatives to policing.

Women and girls in need of reproductive healthcare are being met with systematic refusals, huge financial burdens, stigma, fear of violence, and threats of criminalization,” the groups wrote.

Crystal, motivated by the injustices of cannabis criminalization, strives for social justice and equitable access to cannabis for all.

That question did not seem to interest the justices, nor did they correlate criminalization with the larger issue of housing affordability.

The Pregnancy Justice report recommends strengthening Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protections as one way to reduce pregnancy criminalization.

This trend has resulted in a patchwork of abortion access across the country, as the legality of the procedure and the risk of criminalization vary dramatically depending on geographic location.

In 2018, reports of human trafficking cases rose 123 percent in the state, which experts believe is largely the criminalization of youths of color.

In fact, however, there is a very particular and different crime problem in the big cities than the one the Donald excoriates; it’s a “crime” problem owing to the misbegotten War on Drugs and the excessive criminalization of social life.

Many have been subjected to pervasive restrictions on movement, and the effective criminalization of their distinct identity.

Only idiots have ever supported the criminalization of words.

Opponents said the bill raises due process concerns and could lead to the criminalization of mental illness.

These groups have also been raising alarm about how the criminalization of sex workers has caused them to remain ineligible to receive emergency income supports, despite seeing their incomes disappear overnight when the pandemic hit.

Another organization pushing for an alternative model in San Diego, Mid-City CAN (Community Advocacy Network), for schools with in-school police officers to move away from a criminalization model and towards a restorative justice model.

Answer: an untraced history of criminalization in the sex industry that has now resulted in the censorship of online sexually graphic content.

Criminalization stops people from accessing and using HIV prevention, testing and treatment services and increases their risk of acquiring HIV.

He has defended the death penalty, criminalization of homosexuality and a sexual assault law that punishes unmarried couples who engage in public displays of affection.

It is not simply the criminalization of pregnancy that has led me to this conclusion.

Karen Dolan directs the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.