Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness

Trevor Hoppe

Stevenson 101
9:30 AM

This talk explores how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Professor Hoppe’s Lambda Literary Award winning Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press), analyzes the rise of punitive and coercive responses to HIV.