The social structural phenomena of racism, sexism, and homophobia may be factors in the criminalization of HIV in some communities.
In Minneapolis, criminalization cost the City $1,440,807 in one year alone.
It is the topic of a newly released book she co-wrote, "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States".
Five years ago, Beacon Press published Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People, a book which provided a comprehensive examination LGBT people in the criminal legal system.
For-profit prisons and local and state jails continue to cash in from the criminalization and detention of immigrant workers and youth.
While the ban was intended to prevent a new Occupy L.A. tent city, it could result in the criminalization of people who are sleeping in parks because they are homeless.
That under the influence of their favorite hallucinogenic (the use of which results in disproportionate criminalization rates for black people) and in the presence of their favorite artists, we are all the same.
Likewise, the rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry in a post 9/11 America is grounded in the criminalization of Muslims based on a myth of Muslim pathology -- Muslims are prone to violence, intolerant and opposed to freedom.
"In order to fulfill its promises, the administration must end policies like Secure Communities that result in the criminalization of innocent immigrants who are Americans in Waiting like those who came before them," said Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, in an email statement.
These laws greatly increased criminal penalties for drug use and resulted in the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.
