Decriminalizing Disease: A Health Justice Approach to Infectious Diseases and Criminal Law
This Article seeks to re-frame the discussion around the legal framework for infectious diseases in a way that moves beyond a punishment mindset and toward a health justice mindset. The focus in this Article is on health justice rather than traditional understandings of public health, defined as the science and practice of improving the health of people and their communities.
It argues that health justice, when applied to infectious diseases, requires decriminalisation. Health justice aligns with the abolitionist project to dismantle carceral practices and implement non-carceral approaches