criminalize

English

Alternative forms

• criminalise (chiefly British)

Etymology

criminal +‎ -ize

Verb

criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)

1. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
   • 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine‎^[1]:

     The Nixon campaign in 1968 […] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

2. (transitive) To treat as a criminal.

Derived terms

• criminalization
• decriminalize
• recriminalize

Translations

to make something be a crime

• Arabic: جَرَّمَ‎ (jarrama)
• Catalan: criminalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: tehdä (jostakin) rikos (object in elative and usually before rikos); kriminalisoida (fi), tehdä laittomaksi
• French: criminaliser (fr)
• Galician: prohibir (gl), ilegalizar, penalizar
• Greek: ποινικοποιώ (el) (poinikopoió)
• Hebrew: הוציא מחוץ לחוק‎ (hotzí mikhútz lakhók)
• Italian: criminalizzare (it)
• Japanese: 犯罪視する (hanzaishi suru), 犯罪化する (hanzaika suru)
• Portuguese: criminalizar (pt)
• Romanian: criminaliza
• Russian: криминализова́ть (ru) impf or pf (kriminalizovátʹ)
• Spanish: prohibir (es), ilegalizar (es), penalizar (es)
• Swedish: kriminalisera (sv)

to treat as a criminal

• Catalan: criminalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: kohdella kuin rikollista, leimata rikolliseksi
• French: criminaliser (fr)
• Galician: criminalizar
• German: kriminalisieren (de)
• Italian: criminalizzare (it)
• Spanish: criminalizar (es)

See also

• felonize
• misdemeanorize
• illegalize
• outlaw

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Portuguese

Verb

criminalize

1. inflection of criminalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative