Noun
legislation that makes something illegal
Source: WordNetThe 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. George Soros
If there is an infallible mark of an advanced civilization it is surely the marginalization and criminalization of violence. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. David Graeber
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. Baruch Spinoza
The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization. Warren Farrell
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. Angela Davis