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decriminalization
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decriminalization n. the repeal or amendment (undoing) of statutes which made certain acts criminal, so that those acts no longer are crimes or subject to prosecution. Many states have decriminalized certain sexual practices between consenting adults, "loitering," (hanging out without any criminal activity), or out-moded racist laws against miscegenation (marriage or cohabitation between people of different races). Currently, there is a considerable movement toward decriminalization of the use of some narcotics (particularly marijuana) by adults, on various grounds, including individual rights and contention that decriminalization would take the profit out of the drug trade by making drugs available through clinics and other legal sources.
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Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in 1993 following a 1988 European Court ruling the country was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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His governments brought in many permissive policies including the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which decriminalised homosexual practices above the age of consent and the 1967 Abortion Act, which legalised abortion under certain conditions.
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