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Criminalisation is a painfully ill-thought-out reflex response.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Criminalisation doesn't work, all it does is to randomly imprison otherwise harmless people for a crime that has no victim.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Canada last week became the first country outside of Europe to sign the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed Through Computer Systems full text.
Canada Signs Cybercrime Protocol On Racist Acts Howard M. Friedman 2005
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Criminalisation and stigmatisation would force them to operate underground and not disclose whether they were affected by the virus.
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"Criminalisation of kerb-crawling, to take one example, is harmful to sex workers because ultimately they are the ones who suffer," said Nine, a former support worker for Edinburgh prostitutes.
openDemocracy Laurie Penny 2010
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Criminalisation means that those who may be tempted to try some of these drugs cannot get reliable information - the man in the white BMW is hardly handing out inserts like you get in packets of cough sweets warning people of the doses, contraindications and dangers of combining them with other substances or activities.
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The Criminalisation of products that people want instantly creates a black market for said product - irrespective of what that product is, leading to vastly inflated prices for the product, creating an incentive for criminal organisations to get involved and make profit from the transport, distribution sale of the product ad nauseum.
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Two aspects are key here; the first is the Distortion of Crime Figures instigated by the Labour Government, the second is the misuse of Fixed Penalties and the Criminalisation of innocent people.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Criminalisation, Shaban says, is a byproduct of ghettoisation and a feeling that institutions of the State like the police are a community's enemy, which leads inhabitants of the ghetto to hold hardened criminals in high esteem.
The Times of India 2010
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Criminalisation of the campaign has happened in a number of different ways, on a progressively growing basis.
Indymedia Ireland lynn 2010
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