0 past simple and past participle of criminalize
1 to make something illegal:
The law has criminalized prostitution but not got rid of it.
This criminality was increased by legislation that criminalized customary and informal economic activities.
Intrinsically morally permissible conduct, such as driving without a seat belt, does not automatically become immoral upon being criminalized.
Fashioned from the same gender ideology that criminalized male desertion and non-support of families, they represented a form of state provision for social reproduction.
Indeed, they may be criminalized even though they do not cause harm at all.
It is enough to meet the demands of the harm principle that, if the action were not criminalized, that would be harmful.
The conclusion that conduct is offensive (for the kind of reasons just proposed) is not sufficient to establish that the conduct should be criminalized.
Creating boundaries and intervening space prevented interpenetration, but also reshaped and sometimes criminalized customary pastoral practice.
We cannot say that the one should be criminalized because it reduces a person's options or capabilities more than the other.
