criminalization

English

Alternative forms

• criminalisation (chiefly UK)

Etymology

From criminal +‎ -ization or criminalize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: krĭ"mĭnəlīzā'shən, IPA^(key): /ˌkɹɪmɪnəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/

Noun

criminalization (countable and uncountable, plural criminalizations)

1. The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
   • 2014, Ummni Khan, Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary‎, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

     And of course, s/m players who participate in breath play will also be more vulnerable to criminalization under such a new law.

2. The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.

Antonyms

• decriminalization

Hypernyms

• legal reclassification

Hyponyms

• felonization
• misdemeanorization

Derived terms

• recriminalization
• undercriminalization

Translations

making a previously legal activity illegal

Catalan: criminalització f Chinese: Mandarin: 非法化 (fēifǎhuà) Dutch: criminalisering (nl) f Finnish: kriminalisointi (fi), rikollistaminen French: criminalisation (fr) f, pénalisation (fr) f Galician: criminalización f German: Kriminalisierung f Japanese: 犯罪視 (はんざいし, hanzaishi) Kazakh: қылмыстандыру (qylmystandyru) Portuguese: criminalização (pt) f Russian: криминализа́ция (ru) f (kriminalizácija) Spanish: criminalización f Swedish: kriminalisering (sv)

turning someone into a criminal

Chinese: Mandarin: 罪犯化 (zuìfànhuà) Dutch: criminalisering (nl) f Finnish: kriminalisointi (fi)