Sentence examples for were criminalized for from inspiring English sources

"They were criminalized for just being themselves, they were criticized for wearing pants, their lives have been threatened," Al-Karib said.

She points out the heavily gendered behaviors the state deemed "delinquent": young men were criminalized for idleness or vagrancy, young women for potential sexual behavior.

People of color mobilizing in a small space were criminalized for simply disrupting the status quo despite the sit-in's completely peaceful nature.

People should not be criminalized for poverty.

However, as clarified above, no minor will be criminalized for any sexual activity under this bill.

The racial disparity was extraordinary: White people and black people use marijuana at roughly equal rates, but black people are 3.7 times more likely to be criminalized for doing so.

Human rights groups in Argentina have demanded for her release, a call echoed by Amnesty International which has said Sala "is being criminalized for peacefully exercising her rights to freedom of expression and protest".

If those couples weren't able to get their day in court earlier, it was because they had to live in a shadow; homosexual sex was criminalized for a long time in this country, too, in some states as late as 2003.

One of the convicted scientists, 74-year-old physicist Claudio Evo, called the decision "medieval". There will be time enough to ponder the wider implications of the verdict, but for now all efforts should be channeled into protest, both at the severity of the sentence and at scientists being criminalized for the way their opinions were communicated.

"A lot of times women of color won't express what they're going through, or seek out help, because they don't want to be criminalized for the choices they make," Ms. Porchia-Albert said, adding that a black woman might fear losing custody of her children if she admits to being overwhelmed or exhausted.

A first and familiar suggestion, implicit in the way I have talked throughout of criminalizing 'conduct', is that 'mere thought' should not be criminalized: for thought is private; only action or conduct is public.