"There has to be a limit to what behavior we are going to criminalize after people leave Congress".
In the video above, Anne Bynum describes the harrowing experience of being criminalized and incarcerated after having a stillbirth.
Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London, noted that the European Court of Human Rights, decided in 1981 that sexual activity between men could not be criminalized — but only after a majority of its members had already decriminalized it.
Two years ago, Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan tried to attack polygamy by criminalizing adultery, after prominent members of his Justice and Development Party were rumored to have taken second wives.
A6 Turkey Abandons Adultery Law Turkey's governing party abandoned a proposal to criminalize adultery after suffering a wave of criticism from European Union officials, women's groups, journalists and, finally, from its own members.
On June 25th, State Senator Wendy Davis became a nationally and internationally recognized hero for standing up at the Texas Senate and filibustering her way through Texas Senate Bill 5 (SB5), an anti-abortion bill which imposed severe regulations on abortion clinics in Texas, permitting only five to continue operating in the second-largest U.S. state and criminalizing abortion after 20 weeks.
The system was difficult to shut down quickly after Germany criminalized bribery of foreign officials in 1998, since payments had been promised over longer periods, Mr. Siekaczek said.
After legislatures criminalized a major portion of juvenile delinquency in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of incarcerated youth began serving their sentences in adult correctional facilities.
Japan has finally banned the possession of child pornography, 15 years after it criminalized the creation and distribution of such materials.
The group was detained by Albanian authorities in March 2014 after the country criminalized participation in foreign military adventures.
