decriminalization

Alternative forms

 * decriminalisation

Noun

 * 1) The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess).
 * 2) The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the  (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
 * 1) The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the  (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).

Hypernyms

 * legal

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ապաքրեականացում
 * Catalan: descriminalització
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 除罪化
 * Czech: dekriminalizace
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დეკრიმინალიზაცია
 * German: Entkriminalisierung
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, dekriminalizálás
 * Italian: decriminalizzazione
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қылмыссыздандыру
 * Korean: 비범죄화
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: descriminalización
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: декриміналіза́ція
 * Vietnamese: phi hình sự hóa


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Vietnamese: phi hình sự hóa