This same criminalization of victims is what links coverage of the events in Ferguson to the Middle East.
"It's the criminalization of risk-taking, which is the same as criminalizing capitalism," says Robert Elliott, former partner of KPMG and head of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
"It's the criminalization of risk-taking, which is the same as criminalizing capitalism," says Robert Elliott, former partner at KPMG and head of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Statistically, black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, in a school-to-prison pipeline in which policies like "zero tolerance" and the use of law enforcement for school discipline create an atmosphere where nearly all classroom incidents from harmless to severe are treated with the same level of criminalization. .
"Here we are talking about sentencing reform on Capitol Hill with respect to these older drugs that have been scheduled for a long time, and here comes a drug that is perceived as new, even though it's not, and we're applying the same old failed approach of criminalization," he said.
At the same time, Western Europe is moving away from embracing criminalization of drug use.
The people who pay for and profit from the criminalization of homeless people are the same people who benefit from our nations' refusal to meet basic human needs.
With the criminalization of same sex relationships in the same country, there was a substantial reduction in the provision of services by health workers and the uptake of these services.
The official autopsy report for Michael Brown came out on October 22 -- the same day the Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has observed a National Day of Protest since 1996.
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.
