criminalization
noun/ˌkɹɪmɪnəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
Etymology From criminal + -ization or criminalize + -ation.
1
The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
- And of course, s/m players who participate in breath play will also be more vulnerable to criminalization under such a new law.2014, Ummni Khan, Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:
2
The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.
- Antonyms
- decriminalization
- Derived terms
- recriminalization, undercriminalization
- Hypernyms
- legal reclassification
- Hyponyms
- felonization, misdemeanorization