The federal criminal statutes are drawn extremely broadly -- criminalizing, for example, any "scheme or artifice to defraud".
People should not be criminalized for poverty.
However, as clarified above, no minor will be criminalized for any sexual activity under this bill.
Human rights groups in Argentina have demanded for her release, a call echoed by Amnesty International which has said Sala "is being criminalized for peacefully exercising her rights to freedom of expression and protest".
"As young people of color who are often criminalized for our mere existence," explained Phillip Agnew, the executive director of Dream Defenders, "we are the experts in how our communities are treated by law enforcement.
The racial disparity was extraordinary: White people and black people use marijuana at roughly equal rates, but black people are 3.7 times more likely to be criminalized for doing so.
If those couples weren't able to get their day in court earlier, it was because they had to live in a shadow; homosexual sex was criminalized for a long time in this country, too, in some states as late as 2003.
A first and familiar suggestion, implicit in the way I have talked throughout of criminalizing 'conduct', is that 'mere thought' should not be criminalized: for thought is private; only action or conduct is public.
Cocaine was criminalized for similar reasons, only this time the backlash was directed against black Americans.
Another issue, the report says, is people could be criminalized for small amounts of overproduction.
