to criminalize
- verb
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəˌlaɪz/
- Many countries still criminalize certain forms of drug use and possession.
- criminalize certain behaviors
- criminalize such acts
- criminalize certain activities
A good society should criminalize the purchase of sex.
- A good society should criminalize the purchase of sex.
- We're going down to see them try to criminalize hate speech.
- Because it would make it necessary to criminalize the corruption of deputies.
- He wanted to criminalize a civil violation.
- It shows how we can deal with conduct without trying to criminalize speech.
- According to the law at that time, being gay was criminalized.
- And, and I've thought a lot why, why is our society criminalizing the person that's addicted to drugs?
- You cannot have national guidance that is forcing police officers to de facto criminalize people for non crimes.
- Meanwhile, people at the border are criminalized or are objectified and further marginalized.
- And then there were these rumors being thrown around about bills that would basically criminalize things you said on social media if they were deemed hate speech.
- Some people say that sex work, whether it's full service or whatever, is violence and therefore it should be criminalized.
- So even if we agree with the pro-life position that morally a fetus is a human being, that still doesn't actually support criminalizing abortions.
- Let's go through the law box to try and find some statute that we can criminalize it in.
- Some MP called Rosie and JK Rowling and he was criminalised.
- And what happened was black life was criminalized.
- How many of you know that the DEA is trying to criminalize?
Examples
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Observers agree that this is precisely what has happened in Great Britain, which criminalized hate speech in 1965.
Academic text (1997) -
But if you criminalize doctors and abortion providers, right, that means we no longer have providers.
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So, pretty much everyone is on board with, we are not going to criminalize mental illness and that is a big shift.
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In general, that is, they suggest reasons that the state should not criminalize behavior.
Academic text (2005) -
Because it would make it necessary to criminalize the corruption of deputies.
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It shows how we can deal with conduct without trying to criminalize speech.
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Instead, running away is itself criminalized and becomes a major pathway for these girls into prison.
Academic text (2004) -
Participants were asked to indicate which, if any, of 5 sexual circumstances should be criminalized.
Academic text (2012) -
Ordinary politics could be practiced without fear that political disputes would be criminalized and turned over to independent counsels.
Academic text (1990) -
The generals have prosecuted some of these journalists using a long-standing regulation that criminalizes "insulting" Egypt's armed forces.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
To make something illegal
To make something against the law
Antonyms
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Criminalize is made from criminal, from the idea of 'crime', and the ending -ize, as in realize, meaning 'to make'. So to criminalize something is to 'make' it a crime or to treat people who do it as criminals.