recriminalization

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ criminalization

Noun[edit]

recriminalization (countable and uncountable, plural recriminalizations)

  1. The act of recriminalizing.
    • 2030 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World[1]:
      Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year.