criminalization

Alternative forms

 * (mainly UK)

Etymology
or

Noun

 * 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.

Hypernyms

 * legal

Hyponyms

 * felonization
 * misdemeanorization

Translations

 * Catalan: criminalització
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 非法化
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, rikollistaminen
 * French: ,
 * Galician: criminalización
 * German: Kriminalisierung
 * Japanese: 犯罪視
 * Kazakh: қылмыстандыру
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: criminalización
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 罪犯化
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: