0 present participle of criminalize
1 to make something illegal:
The law has criminalized prostitution but not got rid of it.
Detailed textual analysis reveals strategies of marginalizing, patronizing, criminalizing, and in other ways derogating the outgroup.
Accepting the general case for criminalizing mere offense will inevitably lead to restrictions on individuals' autonomy, especially because the criminal law is so coarse-grained.
It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing.
The justification for criminalizing these cases is, in part, practical.
The point of stating it is to illustrate the possibility of such arguments for criminalizing mere offense.
The subtext was that a greater national shame than criminalizing liquor distribution was in store if prohibition were abandoned.
Feinberg's writings suggest two arguments against criminalizing their conduct or assisting in it.
We also think it is important politically to stop criminalizing this type of fishing.
