BACKGROUND Despite a large body of evidence globally demonstrating that the criminalization of sex workers increases HIV/STI risks, we know far less about the impact of criminalization and policing of managers and in-call establishments on HIV/STI prevention among sex workers, and even less so among migrant sex workers. METHODS Analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork and 46 qualitative inter...

The article highlights the Ukrainian experience of criminalization drunk driving as a result amendments to criminal and administrative legislation in 2018–2021. importance systematization validity making changes law is noted. Attention drawn need for careful observance rules legal technique legislative activity, given that use associated with most significant restrictions on human rights freedo...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of administrative sanctions introduced as part of a new law for drinking drivers in British Columbia, Canada. The new law, known as immediate roadside prohibitions (IRP), aimed to increase the efficiency of police and courts for processing drinking drivers, thereby increasing the certainty of their being apprehended and punished. Ho...

A solution to the problem of “overcriminalization” appears be decriminalization certain crimes. This Essay focuses on a group crimes that has been labeled “proxy crimes” as candidate eliminated. What are proxy crimes? Douglas Husak defines them “offenses designed achieve purpose other than prevent conduct they explicitly proscribe.” Michael Moore describes involving situations where we “use one...

Abstract After decades of criminalization, psychedelic substances such as psilocybin and LSD are experiencing their comeback in science Western culture more broadly. While plants fungi have a long history use Indigenous cultures, the prohibitionist reality instantiated around 1970 has stigmatized psychedelics medically useless threat to society. Yet studies increasingly demonstrating potential ...

The allegation that criminal justice systems (and of the United States in particular) have become guilty overcriminalization is widely accepted by academics and practitioners on nearly all points along political spectrum ( Dillon 2012 ). Many commentators respond recommending states decriminalize given kinds conduct supposedly exemplify problem. I urge those who are theoretically minded to proc...

suicide and voluntary euthanasia is an unethical alternative to redressing current deficiencies in palliative care in Canada, physicians, ethicists and patient advocates argue. Decriminalization would offer a false choice so long as Canadians lack access to palliative care, the critics contended while panning the recommendation of the Royal Society of Canada panel report, End-of-Life Decision M...