criminalization
Noun
Meaning
legislation that makes something illegal
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The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
If there is an infallible mark of an advanced civilization it is surely the marginalization and criminalization of violence.
The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.
For Spinoza, by contrast, there is to be no criminalization of ideas in the well-ordered state. Libertas philosophandi, the freedom of philosophizing, must be upheld for the sake of a healthy, secure and peaceful commonwealth and material and intellectual progress.
The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.
The criminalization of black and Latina women includes persisting images of hypersexuality that serve to justify sexual assaults against them both in and outside of prison.