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One important hallmark of this tendency was the decision in 1951 to decriminalize absenteeism.
Township behaviour could only improve if shebeens were decriminalized, they argued.
We must have the courage to say that we must control, and not simply decriminalize drug use.
This group has concluded that the criminalization of kratom is unnecessary, problematic and counter-productive, and has summarily recommended that kratom be decriminalized.
The tendency since the early 1970s has been to decriminalize a number of actions formerly indictable under the penal code.
Quakers were especially modern in their treatment of mental illness, decriminalizing insanity and turning away from punishment and confinement.
In addition, in places where the trade has been decriminalized, at least some types of participants remain illegal.
Conversely, when local politics determines that it is no longer a crime, they may be decriminalized.
The law still prohibits holding more than one marriage license at a time, but cohabitation with more than one consenting adult was decriminalized.
Other recommendations call on states to respect online anonymity, adopt privacy and data protection laws, and to decriminalize defamation.
Since 1919, all have been legal, except sorcery which was decriminalized in 1972.
Among the acts decriminalized were creating a public disturbance because of drunkenness as well as certain offenses against property, such as petty theft.
The government has been under pressure to decriminalize libel, especially after prosecution against journalists and bloggers has intensified.
All these former offenses were swiftly decriminalized.
That current laws criminalizing theft do not deter thieves is not an argument for decriminalizing theft (although theft is not in any way a victimless crime).
