to criminalize
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəˌlaɪz/
:
criminalizar
- 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
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4.4
To make something illegal
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6.7
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.