Is our society over-criminalizing? Ticketing children for not having occupational license or paying taxes on their lemonade stand earnings. Or how about charging an 11 year old a $535 fine and possible incarceration for violating a federal law called the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Alison’s crime was recusing a woodpecker from being eaten by a cat.
John-Michael Seibler has a great article on the over criminalization in the United States.