criminalized
past simple and past participle ofcriminalize
criminalize
verb[T]
(UKusuallycriminalise)uk/ˈkrɪm.ɪ.nəl.aɪz/us/ˈkrɪm.ə.nəl.aɪz/to make somethingillegal:
Thelawhas criminalizedprostitutionbut not gotridof it.
Synonym
outlaw
Opposites
decriminalize
legalize
UK politics: legislation & law-making
- abolish
- abrogate
- abrogation
- amend
- amendment
- assemblyman
- constitutional
- enforce
- gold plate
- Green Paper
- guillotine
- hard Brexitidiom
- jurisprudence
- presiding officer
- Prime Minister's Questions
- private member's bill
- prohibit
- prohibition
- sanction
- writ
Examplesofcriminalized
criminalized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This criminality was increased by legislation thatcriminalizedcustomary and informal economic activities.
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Intrinsically morally permissible conduct, such as driving without a seat belt, does not automatically become immoral upon beingcriminalized.
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Fashioned from the same gender ideology thatcriminalizedmale desertion and non-support of families, they represented a form of state provision for social reproduction.
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Indeed, they may becriminalizedeven though they do not cause harm at all.
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It is enough to meet the demands of the harm principle that, if the action were notcriminalized, that would be harmful.
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The conclusion that conduct is offensive (for the kind of reasons just proposed) is not sufficient to establish that the conduct should becriminalized.
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Creating boundaries and intervening space prevented interpenetration, but also reshaped and sometimescriminalizedcustomary pastoral practice.
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We cannot say that the one should becriminalizedbecause it reduces a person's options or capabilities more than the other.
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It is not anything with the real nature of sleeping beingcriminalizedhere, and most addressees would probably understand the euphemism.
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The former were increasinglycriminalizedand stigmatized, at least on a rhetorical level.
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While collective movements of sisterhood and solidarity between female reformers andcriminalizedwomen are alluded to, discussions about them are left undeveloped.
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It is no objection under the harm principle that a harmless action wascriminalized, nor even that an action with no tendency to cause harm was criminalized.
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The labor movement's cynicism about the law of conspiracy was heightened by the fact that itcriminalizedlabor activities but not employer blacklists of union workingmen, which were also boycotts.
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However, this statute was so vague it gave prosecutors almost carte blanche power to use in political and private situations which should not becriminalized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is however no limit to the conduct that can becriminalized, when the legislature does not set minimum guidelines to govern law enforcement.
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- lack of competitiveness
- lack of compliance
- lack of compliance
- lack of comprehension
- lack of comprehension
- lack of concentration
- lack of concentration
- lack of confidence
- lack of confidence
- lack of connection
- lack of connection
- lack of consensus
- lack of consensus
- lack of consent
- lack of consent
- lack of consideration
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- lack of control
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- lack of coordination