As a companion to the second and future editions of the Criminalization of Mental Illness textbook, mental health researchers expand on the central concept of each chapter in the textbook and expand on it to provide a thorough, multifaceted understanding of issues facing people with mental illness who are involved with the justice system.
Elizabeth Comack, a scholar whose work concerns the Canadian justice system and Indigenous peoples, has produced an insightful book about the criminalization of Indigenous women.
Because for as many years, the total criminalization of possession, even of small quantities of illegal substances, is practiced, which means that if you find in your pocket a single cigarette with cannabis, you are prone to a prison of 1 to 3 years.
Our narrative of religion in a time of mass criminalization must take this consciously liberatory turn: to refuse to yoke black life to the stranglehold of punitive punishment and to dwell instead in the complexities of being and being-together inside our prison nation, where currently and formerly imprisoned people and their families are building their own Promised Lands.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Twelve parties, a non-governmental organisation and a Tunisian association demonstrated on Sunday in the centre of the capital, Tunis, after a long stand in front of the statue of Ibn Khaldun, and demanded "Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the State of Palestine." The protest was organised by the National Coordination Committee for the Criminalization of Normalization with the Israeli Occupation.
BAGHDAD / National Iraqi News Agency / nina / Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier agreed on the need for cooperation to dry up the sources of terrorism and the criminalization of terrorist extremist ideology.
And it is sadly true that the majority - but not all - of those who sell sex across the world are women and that many of those who sell sex have often experienced multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage." But the blog goes on to say that "Where we differ is when this diagnosis leads to a prescription of criminalization of sex work.
1 as World AIDS Day, the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) are calling for the elimination of outdated HIV criminalization laws in a new position statement.
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