Sentence examples for of our criminalized from inspiring English sources

Mary Beth Pfeiffer Stone Ridge, N.Y., Aug. 10, 2009 The writer is a journalist and author of "Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill".

" … our parliament is thinking of ways of criminalizing HIV infection … I don't think we should go towards criminalizing HIV infection because we are going to punish innocent people …" (Ug10, NGO representative).

But when so many of our innocent youth are criminalized and unjustifiably targeted on a regular basis, the results have been devastating -- even deadly.

Really, what is the point of speaking with seeming seriousness about moving beyond the drug war's ugly legacy of strong-arm solutions, only to turn around and flatly dismiss the notion of no longer criminalizing our friends and neighbors?

If anything, by shaming and looking down on our fellow LGBT brothers and sisters, we align ourselves with powers that seek to strip us of our civil rights and criminalize our existence.

Nonetheless, what had always been regarded as a heroic episode had now, in the eyes of some, been criminalized.

The connection of public bathrooms with condemned sexual behavior also relates to our recent history of criminalizing homosexuality.

The immorality of a given kind of conduct creates a presumption in favour of criminalizing it it 'should be criminally prohibited'.

Lambda Legal, a national gay-rights advocacy group, agreed to represent them as a means both of directly challenging Bowers v. Hardwick and of highlighting the consequences of criminalizing consensual gay sex.

Moreover, the poor and homeless, whether protesters or not, were further criminalized as a result of our eviction.

The next question concerns the proper scope of the criminal law: what kinds of conduct should be criminalized?