Benjamin Chavis, the former executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., said, "I think to criminalize how a person wears their clothing is more offensive than what the remedy is trying to do".
Even if selling sex were no longer criminalized, how are you going to get past an App Store that won't currently accept legal sexually explicit content?
Californians will express how they want police resources used, if adults who consume marijuana should be criminalized, how best to deal with the tragic violence in Mexico, and what our priorities should be in tough economic times.
But if anti-choice reactionaries want to argue that abortion should be re-criminalized, how can they logically claim that a woman who procures and pays for an abortion has committed no crime and deserves no punishment?
"We need to refocus our efforts away from criminalizing how someone looks or lives and instead focus on smart and creative ways to address the lack of affordable housing and support services for persons who are homeless".
How their play becomes criminalized and how they're socialized to become black adults who internalize that their very breathing selves are criminal.
So we can explain why some kinds of conduct are properly criminalized by showing how they wrong or harm 'the public', or 'the public interest': but can we explain all crimes in this way?
When speaking about street harassment at trainings, panels and other outreach efforts, one question repeatedly asked by participants is, 'How do you criminalize catcalling?' Criminalizing verbal harassment and unwanted gestures is neither the final goal nor the ultimate solution to this problem and can, in fact, inadvertently work against the growth of an inclusive anti-harassment movement.
How messy, criminalizing and prosecuting dissent.
In 2 minutes and 26 seconds of video, we saw how our system criminalizes poverty, disproportionately punishes petty behavior and irresponsibly separates parents from children.
