How To Use Criminalize In A Sentence
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This criminalises people who have committed no crime.
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Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
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Security Council, in its reaction to the September 11 attacks, obliged member states to "criminalize" terrorist attacks - not to declare war on terrorists.
Daphne Eviatar: Graham Bill Plays Right Into al Qaeda's Hands
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This bill aims to take away the criminalised aspect of that, and it de-penalises the aspect of having evidence of safe sex on the premises - that is, condoms, sheaths, diaphragms, and lubricants.
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A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
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Abusive employers are complicit, and lax Taiwanese labor laws criminalize workers who flee.
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Hidden sellers of crack, powder cocaine, and heroin and hidden users of these drugs have rarely been available for behavioral research while pursuing these criminalized activities.
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But a spokesman for the Terrence Higgins Trust warned against rushing to criminalise people with HIV, except in cases where malicious intent was beyond doubt.
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In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This should be criminalised or the guilty party should be penalised through the deduction of votes, Sega newspaper reported.
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It has decriminalized medical marijuana, legalized assisted suicide and earlier this year, began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Portland area.
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The government has backed away from its plans to decriminalise consensual sexual behaviour between teenagers.
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A number of European countries have decriminalised possession of cannabis or have softened laws in the area.
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The issue over whether to criminalise upskirting is being decided in Parliament today.
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But how many of these people are politicians who are more than happy to criminalise others for non-payment of tax?
The Sun
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In the place of different political parties what Fatton terms "accumulation alliances" have arisen, based on clientship and centered around the charismatic personality of a particular gwo neg ( "big man"), engaged in a "criminalized zero-sum game" in pursuit of power.
Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide
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Cosatu demanded the government give paid time off for education programmes about AIDS, and "decriminalise" the disease by not discriminating against workers carrying HIV, the virus that causes
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The Reasoned Amendment claims the Bill fails to tackle the ‘inadequacies’ of animal welfare legislation, but would criminalise the activities of tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens.
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For me, being able to truthfully say that I wasn’t in any way connected to the sex industry in Rhode Island (besides knowing a lot of dancers, escorts, and spa workers as friends or neighbors) was crucial in making the point that the belief that the activity should be decriminalized is in the mainstream, and that it jives with normal peoples’ values.
Relevancy of Client Status « Bound, Not Gagged
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The eminent biologist played a crucial role in the fight to decriminalize homosexuality in Britain.
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But to "decriminalize" something is to make it more widely available.
Newspaper Tree
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And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically.
How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf
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Tucked into the revised proposals are plans to criminalise squatting.
The Sun
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Asbos are a punitive measure that can criminalise people for behaviour that is not criminal.
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An act that is destructive to the environment may be criminalized by statute.
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The government's anti-union laws have criminalised essential union activity.
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Dr Martin forward a private members' bill to decriminalize cannabis in some circumstances.
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There's a tendency to be defeatist, to label and criminalise young people.
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We don’t want to criminalise a group of students, but at the same time we don’t want to treat the problem as some kind of jape, either.
Parents Interferring with Kids Education | Impact Lab
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The fact that people find it distasteful doesn't mean you can criminalise it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain had decriminalized homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967.
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In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
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Advocacy and campaign to reduce prosecution of sex workers and further to decriminalize sex work in China.
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They're being criminalized and treated as lawbreakers.
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Ultimately, the issue is larger than the welter of provisions some say would criminalize youth.
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There's a tendency to be defeatist, to label and criminalise young people.
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You can see why both houses of parliament have voted that nonpayment should be decriminalised.
Times, Sunday Times
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For no good reason I had mentally criminalised a group of fellow passengers simply because they were young men.
Times, Sunday Times
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That sounds like an echo of the far-right drum beat that seeks to criminalise all migrants.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm not saying legalise it, just decriminalise it in certain areas.
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It is illegal but it is decriminalised which means that there are places that it can be consumed.
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For example, spousal violence was only criminalized twenty years ago and lobby groups are pushing for similar moves to prevent a defence to smacking children.
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The use of opium was not criminalized until fairly recently.
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It defends and justifies actions that are politically stupid and senseless, and which lure politically naive young people into a trap, in which they can easily be criminalised.
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In a radical move, the country has decriminalised the use of not just cannabis, but all illegal drugs, including heroin.
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Technology has legitimized precision warfare and criminalized collateral death and destruction resulting from the use of lethal force.
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In an economy quickly going down the toilet faster than a nickel bag when the police come a-knocking, decriminalized and government-sanctioned "ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally' green 'jobs, add much needed tax revenues, and end the criminality and high-cost incarceration (inordinately of young black males) attached to its production, sale and consumption.
Michael DeJong: A New "Green" Economy
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There is no move to criminalise alcohol.
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After more than a year of internal debate, the Canadian government introduced legislation this week to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana but set stricter penalties for trafficking of the drug.
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We will not legalize or decriminalize any drugs, nor do we envisage a time when this would be appropriate.
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The vaguely worded bills seek to criminalize safe and common abortion procedures throughout pregnancy.
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His government is using ASBOs to scapegoat and criminalise young people.
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Should we also decriminalise murder, burglary and rape, all of which persist despite the best efforts of the law?
Letters: Getting high is a basic human right
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The government here should be pressured to decriminalize prostitution.
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The convention criminalises activities, including online child pornography, fraud, and hacking.
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It declares such marriages null and void in general (and may criminalize the sexual activity between the would-be spouses), but it doesn't do anything preventative to stop people from getting married.
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Also in Spain, the Catalan Parliament unanimously approved a resolution to decriminalize the use of medical marijuana.
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He said that he opposed the secret memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel purporting to authorize torture, not because they violated existing law, but because they would have rendered moot an amendment proposed by Senator John McCain (and signing-statemented away by President George W. Bush) to redundantly re-criminalize torture by the military while allowing it for the CIA.
Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture
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The pro-abortion camp are fighting to decriminalize abortion.
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It would be unfair to use spring traps to criminalize activities that are traditionally considered lawful.
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Chinese legal experts are drawing up proposals for the country's first animal welfare law, which could criminalise the brutal culling of dogs and other forms of pet maltreatment.
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Taiwan will formally decriminalize prostitution in November, but it will be legal only in certain areas.
Decriminalizing The Sex Trade
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In the financial world, the larceny is effectively decriminalized - culprits typically settle in cash with fines or settlements, without admitting guilt but promising not to do it again.
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Section 59 criminalizes the supply and procuring of abortifacients or instruments for use in unlawful abortions.
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However the department has rebuffed calls to criminalise those who refuse to obey the law.
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Their communities were criminalised and subject to excessive police surveillance.
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If hardcore material was decriminalised, then perhaps we would see a clean up of the industry.
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The government should repeal all legislation that criminalises football fans for expressing their passion.
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In view of the readily apparent down sides of the "drug war" and seeing potential new sources of revenue and apathy, they will soon "decriminalize" marijuana.
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The fact that people find it distasteful doesn't mean you can criminalise it.
Times, Sunday Times
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January 31, 2008 at 12: 06 PM what's important is the distinction between "decriminalize" and "legalize" ... how very Republican of you to follow the Washington TIMES and ignore nuance in favor of a soundbite.
POTHEAD HUSSEIN VS. JOHN MCCAIN?
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If a statute purports to criminalize desecration of a flag, does the government have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, as an element of the offense, that the flag is a sacred object?
The Volokh Conspiracy » At Least a Dozen Flag Desecration Prosecutions in the U.S. Since 1992
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The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did.
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In so doing, they have, as Janet Halley has observed, "treat [ed] sodomy as a metonym for homosexual personhood," 26 thereby attempting to criminalize homosexuality itself.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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The government has introduced new legislation to criminalize computer hacking.
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The chain of command is no more functioning effectively, span of control is just limited in formalities, power and authority is not assigned properly for rationale use, unwanted intervention has become a part of commanding culture, security politics is criminalized, accountability, responsibility and answerability are just survived in part of vocabulary and academic lessons of policing.
Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
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Even though the card would probably not help catch a single villain, it would criminalise many thousands of absent-minded, forgetful and inefficient people.
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Rap patois and Polari British slang parlance popular with 1960s gay subculture before being gay had been de-criminalised both have their own exclusive lexicons.
Gary Nunn: Is It Odd for a White Gay Man to Love Hip-Hop?
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The misbelief that, once decriminalised, women in the industry will be able to choose their own working conditions and their own clients, and have industry health and safety standards in place are misplaced.
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Contradictory pieces of legislation have been put forward in the different chambers of government: one would criminalise illegal immigrants, and another would legalise their status.
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So our conclusion is it cannot necessarily be right to criminalise one activity, which has seemed to work quite well, on the basis that it might be possible to achieve the same result by some other as yet untried method.
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Many gay people felt that they were being criminalized for having relationships.
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Richard Branson's enthusiastic endorsement of the campaign to decriminalise drugs is welcome, as is the news that he devotes half his time to working for charities 'Nobody should go to prison for taking drugs', 4 June.
Letters: Drugs, rehabilitation and Richard Branson
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However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
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All the people who use it now will just find some other alternative to smoking pot if it is criminalized, which is why people buy the expens
PegasusNews.com stories
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It is only an exaggeration to see the urge to criminalize our soon-to-be-former leaders, to make into courtroom drama the tragedy of the last eight years, as an extension of this same practice.
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What is clear from this brief examination is that the decision to criminalise or decriminalise particular activities, whether by judicial decision or legislation, is far from straightforward.
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An act that is destructive to the environment may be criminalized by statute.
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And your assertion that the working classes were notoriously law-abiding is laughable, simply because laws back then criminalized debt.
Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
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If this is simply a move to "criminalize" now civil copyright laws, just what doesnational securityhave to do with a law dealing with pirated movies and CDs?
Obama Expands and Moves on Bush Agenda Involving New Treaty
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For good reason, Congress has never adopted a law to criminalize leaks of government information.
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The new amendment also overturns Article 80 of the act which criminalized prostitutes but not their clients based on its unconstitutionality.
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There are three options available to alleviate this problem, keeping it a criminal offence, decriminalize it and legalize it.
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Everywhere homosexuality and gender variance is being discriminated against; in more that 80 countries in the world, same sex relationships are criminalised and in 7 of them, death penalty can be enforced.
May 17 – International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
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These defences recognise that it is not desirable to criminalise young people for sexual experimentation, despite how we as parents might feel about that activity.
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U. S. authorities have strongly criticized Canadian plans to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, arguing it could result in highly potent pot flooding across the border.
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The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did.
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In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
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Even after this year's move to decriminalize, police could nab prostitutes until rules on solicitation and zoning become clearer.
Decriminalizing The Sex Trade
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For people in the countryside, new laws such as those governing access to game or forests could criminalize what had been everyday activity.
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She said, ‘We should not use language that criminalises any workers as illegal.’
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The press sought to discredit us as naive rich kids, the police bullied and criminalized us and the government dismissed our valid concerns as ‘blah, blah, blah.’
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In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There is no language in HR 875 that would regulate, penalize, or shut down backyard gardens or 'criminalize' gardeners; the bill focuses on ensuring the safety of food in interstate commerce.
Dave Johnson: The HR 875 Food Safety Modernization Act Scare
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This may be seen as a rationalization of the appellate courts' tendency to stretch the interpretation of statutes so as to criminalize people who, they think, have manifestly committed a serious wrong.
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However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
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If we allow this ban to go through unopposed, we are giving the government permission to criminalise people who pursue an activity that most people disapprove of on no better grounds than a peculiarly British snobbery.
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Cultures youth create are criminalized, pathologized, shut down, and silenced, and the powers that be start worrying about losing control of the youth.
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She said: ‘If parliament wishes to criminalise any particular activity, it must do so in clear terms.’
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It's worth noting that the U.N. Security Council, in its reaction to the September 11 attacks, obliged member states to "criminalize" terrorist attacks - not to declare war on terrorists.
Daphne Eviatar: Graham Bill Plays Right Into al Qaeda's Hands
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Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.
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The Tenth Commandment, the one about "coveting," criminalizes thought.
Larry Beinhart: Dispatches from the War On Stupidity
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This measure formally decriminalized the use of illegal drugs.
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‘What we don't want to do is criminalize legitimate behavior,’ she argued.
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For no good reason I had mentally criminalised a group of fellow passengers simply because they were young men.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four years ago, they were derided for raising proposals to decriminalise cannabis.
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Defending the policy, he said: ‘I agree we don't want to criminalise young people for dropping litter.
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If women with arrest records are categorically unworthy of trust, wouldn't that apply to those Melissa Farley cites as wanting prostitution to remain criminalized as well as those who argue for legalization?
Monica Shores: Prostitution "Experts" Versus Prostitutes: Why Don't All Sex Workers Deserve a Voice?
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Even though the card would probably not help catch a single villain, it would criminalise many thousands of absent-minded, forgetful and inefficient people.
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However, another function of inchoate offences is to criminalize those who try and fail, as well as those who are caught before they have the chance to succeed or fail.
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Some religious groups have argued the law could criminalize conservative speech, but the Attorney General says it would be used only to prosecute violence.
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Any act the new laws criminalize is effectively illegal already.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill
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In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In addition, antidefamation laws criminalize libel of both public and private persons.
Undefined
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In their view, some of the proposed offences were excessively broad or too vague and could criminalise peaceful activities.
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Just so we're clear about this, the bill decriminalised prostitution.
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Britain had decriminalized homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in the Sexual Offenses Act 1967.
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An act that is destructive to the environment may be criminalized by statute.
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Tsai restated yesterday that the current aim of the small three links is only to decriminalize illegal trading that already exists in the Taiwan Strait.
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In the midst of the recently resurgent debate in Britain about whether our drug laws are working – or require a major overhaul – the experience of Portugal has become a crucial piece of evidence in favour of a radical approach that has confounded the expectations of even its conservative critics, so much so that in the last month British officials have asked their Portuguese counterparts for advice, with the only caveat being that they avoid mentioning the word "decriminalise".
What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy
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They want to decriminalize sex work, which is something quite different from legalizing it, as we learned with marijuana.
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New legislation directed against illegal immigrants also criminalises anyone who aids them.
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These officials intended to criminalize the gypsy way of life and deny a group of people their civil rights.
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It criminalized cell phone monitoring, interception of digital signals and digital pagers, and listening to certain other specific services.
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Abusive employers are complicit, and lax Taiwanese labor laws criminalize workers who flee.
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So I don't say 'legalize' it; I say decriminalize pot, and mushrooms.
Going green (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Meanwhile, bud has been demonized, criminalized, and the drug war has been industrialized.
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In these countries, laws have been enacted to regulate illegal debt collection agencies and to criminalize irregular dunning actions.
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Policies like the smacking ban would criminalise law-abiding people, he said.
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If we allow this ban to go through unopposed, we are giving the government permission to criminalise people who pursue an activity that most people disapprove of on no better grounds than a peculiarly British snobbery.
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The legislation is not going to "decriminalize" prostitution; it would merely change the law to prevent prosecution of those under the age of 16.
Right Wing Watch
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I believe that it is not acceptable to claim that it is enough to "decriminalize" cannabis use.
Cannabis: The Report Of The Canadian Government Commission Of Inquiry Into The Non-Medical Use Of Drugs
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But the establishment, notably including Mr David Cameron and various joke policemen, make it almost impossible to get this message across by falling for the well funded and brilliantly directed global campaign to 'decriminalise' this poison.
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The Court of Appeal in Wilson was surely right to declare that the burden of finding strong arguments should lie on those who wish to criminalize consensual conduct, not on those who wish it to be lawful.
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You guys are trying to constitutionalize a matter of statutory/common law, in the sense that whether the state has the constitutional right to ban threats hinges on whether it has chosen to criminalize the underlying activity.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kansas Now Allows Threat of Deadly Force in Self-Defense, and Not Just Use of Such Force
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So, should prostitution be legalised, decriminalised or are things best the way they are at the moment?
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In the US, "decriminalized" usually means subject to some penalty, but not a criminal one.
Maryjane
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Formal governmental censorship is rare and moral majoritarians have been relatively ineffective in the effort to criminalize rock concerts through the instrumentality of the courts.
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Forthcoming EU legislation could criminalise Europeans who circumvent copyright protection.
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While other South Central Asian countries do not yet have clear legislation on violence against women, India has a comprehensive law in place to criminalize it.
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The pro-abortion camp are fighting to decriminalize abortion.
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Skweyiya also called for a policy that would "decriminalise" migration and infuse a human rights perspective of development that enhanced improved service delivery for the poorest of the poor in the region.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The one's who use this law to criminalize hunters will likely be part of this ultra-liberal ultra-left administration, or a future one like it, god forbid, or the activist judges they appoint.
On The Supreme Court And Hunting Videos
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Since this document has been put forth, both Canada and Australia (to name a few governments) have criminalised people for exercising this right.
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Portuguese counterparts for advice, with the only caveat being that they avoid mentioning the word "decriminalise".
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This is an extremely wide provision designed to criminalize those who help a thief or a receiver.
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That hesitation now seems to be fast disappearing after the Delhi High Court, in a momentous judgement in 2009, read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise consensual gay sex.
To Be Gay In Indian Business
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In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The government has backed away from its plans to decriminalise consensual sexual behaviour between teenagers.
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The pro-abortion camp are fighting to decriminalize abortion.
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It criminalises open instigation of terrorism and terror threats, and sets out a definition of the term ‘organised crime’.
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Similar trickery explains why the Government wants to criminalise the wearing of face paint or silly masks on demonstrations.
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The possession of a small amount for personal use has been "decriminalized", which means it's not legal, but it's not illegal either.
Maryjane
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The possession of a small amount for personal use has been "decriminalized", which means it's not legal, but it's not illegal either. viejomalogato
Maryjane
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However when our dissent becomes a meaningful challenge to their illegitimate privilege and authority, then they will begin to criminalize us.
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California, New York and Texas have practically criminalized the process by requiring applicants to be fingerprinted, an action that automatically brands them as potential cheaters.
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I have put an amendment to call this bill by a title that truly reflects its aim to decriminalise such activities as soliciting, living off the earnings of prostitution, pimping, and coercion.
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It has criminalized these people and their situations, and by incarcerating them they're reinforcing the notion that these people belong behind bars.
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It is increasingly clear that the only viable way to treat drug offences is to criminalise them.
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This wish to "decriminalize" disreputable behavior that "harms no one" - and thus remove the ultimate sanction the police can employ to maintain neighborhood order — is, we think, a mistake.
Broken Windows
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Despite its reputation as strict on drug policy, plans to decriminalize marijuana possession in Oklahoma are advancing.
