criminalize

How To Use criminalize In A Sentence

• This criminalises people who have committed no crime.
• Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
• Security Council, in its reaction to the September 11 attacks, obliged member states to "criminalize" terrorist attacks - not to declare war on terrorists. Daphne Eviatar: Graham Bill Plays Right Into al Qaeda's Hands
• This bill aims to take away the criminalised aspect of that, and it de-penalises the aspect of having evidence of safe sex on the premises - that is, condoms, sheaths, diaphragms, and lubricants.
• A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
• Abusive employers are complicit, and lax Taiwanese labor laws criminalize workers who flee.
• Hidden sellers of crack, powder cocaine, and heroin and hidden users of these drugs have rarely been available for behavioral research while pursuing these criminalized activities.
• But a spokesman for the Terrence Higgins Trust warned against rushing to criminalise people with HIV, except in cases where malicious intent was beyond doubt.
• In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic. The Times Literary Supplement
• This should be criminalised or the guilty party should be penalised through the deduction of votes, Sega newspaper reported.