Advocates for criminalisation will argue that "prostituted persons" (a despicable term that denies our agency) will be decriminalised under the new proposals.
Jani Leinonen, the Finnish artist behind the project, explains that Hungary's homeless population can now "be fined for being out on the streets, and sent to jail for not paying three fines: it's basically the criminalisation of homelessness".
If the only route is criminalisation, so be it.
Criminalisation doesn't end demand – it just makes clients more afraid, and destroys any trust between worker and client.
Alcoholic mothers therefore need warning, care and treatment, not criminalisation.
So the criminalisation of squatting, the attitudes of buy-to-let landlords (typified by the Daily Mail's offering last week of a buy-to-let property as a competition prize), the right to buy and the carving up of housing association stock constitute a national scandal.
Biehal questions plans to charge social workers with wilful neglect if children in their care suffer abuse: "I don't agree with the criminalisation of a workforce and we must be careful of not making a political point out of child protection, as has happened so often in the past.
In parts of the US, where criminalisation has gone ahead and women have sometimes been imprisoned for drinking or drug-taking during pregnancy, there has been no reduction in the incidence of the problem.
But this recent era of expanded criminalisation and virulent homophobia has been another gift from the west, this time from the United States.
Oldfield has repeatedly made his motivations for protesting at the Boat Race very clear: "As inequalities increase in Britain and across much of the world, so does the criminalisation of protest; my solidarity is with everyone everywhere working towards more equitable societies".
"With today's ruling, the court maintains the criminalisation of home births".
