NEOLIBERALISM, NEOCOLONIALISM, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF "HOMOSEXUALITY": Interview with Scott Long http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/long030810.html

 I think what we are seeing globally is an increasing reliance on criminal law as an instrument of social policy, and one reason this is happening, I believe, is neoliberalism, the processes that we call neoliberalism, which basically involves Western governments stripping governments in the developing world of their capacity to defend social welfare, to provide social services. All that neoliberalism has left those states is the police power. The police power is the only kind of social intervention they can imagine. So, you have . . . model laws that are being proposed internationally which urge countries to fight HIV by criminalizing HIV transmission