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UK
/kɹˌɪmɪnəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
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legislation that makes something illegal
the criminalization of marijuana
How To Use criminalisation In A Sentence
- Some seek personal de-criminalisation and rehabilitation, others have a more fundamental objection to man-made laws and courts as such.
- Decriminalisation has all the disadvantages of increased use while allowing gangs to retain their virtual monopoly on production and supply.
- Overall though, gay is good, which is why Sam Snort welcomes the proposed decriminalisation of homosexuality on the part of the Progressive Democrats.
- The party also supports an ill-defined criminalisation of verbal attacks on national "holies". Slackbastard
- The NGO, the Trust for Community Outreach and Education, says the tribunal may also consider the "criminalisation" of land dispossession and landlessness. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Instead, it is about the decriminalisation of the peripheral businesses surrounding prostitution - such things as pimping, brothel keeping, trafficking in young women, and drugs.
- Although they have fewer than 900 members, they still hope to stir mutiny among sections of the electorate unhappy with" criminalisation "of file sharing," excessive surveillance "and what it sees as limits to free speech. TechPresident
- There is scant coverage of the trial outcomes this week in the mainstream media because it doesn't fit the 'criminalisation' script that all of Shell's friends are working off. Indymedia Ireland
- After all in a number of the EU countries state offices are, on the contrary, obliged to buy works of art under law, "Sozansky said, adding that the" criminalisation "of the purchase for the NKU reminds him of the arbitrary practices of the previous communist regime. Prague Monitor
- The reality is that, before decriminalisation, most of the activity was underground, outside the law, and not counted.