Sentence examples similar to over criminalized from inspiring English sources
When Bernie Sanders calls for an end to mass incarceration, he is articulating an important idea: this country has over-criminalized to its own detriment, and must shift state investments from punishment to support.
Newspapers said lawmakers were divided over criminalizing sex-selective abortions.
This is a textbook case of using a "gang" dragnet to over-criminalize people of color.
Consensual same-sex relations are criminalized in over 80 countries, in eight of these by death.
Then there's news of the CEO of Vancouver-based Tahoe Resummonedbeing summoned to a Guatemalan court over accusations of criminalizing community leaders.
It all echoes other horror stories that are real in our society, where we over-police and criminalize the poor.
The Ferguson criminal justice system supplemented an inadequate tax system by criminalizing quality of life infractions, over-policing, over-fining, and ultimately incarcerating the poor and overwhelming African-American part of the Ferguson community.
Not only do states disagree about who should be prosecuted, they also differ over how to define the content to be criminalized.
Tensions have flared in recent months over France's new "burqa ban," which effectively criminalized full face veils.
But others have concerns over the push to criminalize sexual deception.
"I do believe we are moving into a new era, where both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, are agreeing that our system of laws is over-criminalized and our prison systems are expensive and ineffective," said P.S. Ruckman Jr., a professor at Northern Illinois University and the editor of the blog Pardon Power.
