Lowering Indigenous incarceration rates is a key aim of the Closing The Gap targets, but there are more First Nations people behind bars than ever. How did this happen and what can fix it?
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Les moyens de subsistance sur lesquels les communautés comptent depuis des siècles sont en train d'être criminalisés à travers des restrictions sévères imposées par l'État.
Criminalising ecocide means its victims will be able to receive reparations, helping to rebuild destroyed ecosystems and communities.
Livelihoods which communities have relied on for centuries are being criminalised by heavy-handed state restrictions.
Work in the sexual services industry has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and workers have been left without access to government support.
Sex work using the internet is safer for sex workers and easier to police – why would MPs want to change that?
Canada is legalizing marijuana on July 1. But how the drug became criminalized in the first place is an interesting saga that involves anti-Chinese racism and international influence.
Hazing is unacceptable, but criminalising it may cause more problems than it solves.
The murder of toddler James Bulger 25 years ago by two 10-year-old boys was a rare and shocking case that still impacts the criminal justice system today.
Stigma stops people from getting tested for HIV, and staying on their treatment. Unless it’s addressed, the AIDS epidemic will persist.
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Research Associate, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor in International Criminology, University of Bristol
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University
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Professor of Social Work, Durham University
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Reader in Psychology and Social Policy, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Criminal Law Researcher, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
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Associate professor, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University
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Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
