criminalization

English

Alternative forms

• criminalisation (mainly 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.
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)