Synonyms for criminalization
crim·i·nal·iza·tion

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1. criminalizationnoun

   Antonyms:
   decriminalization

2. criminalizationnoun

   Antonyms:
   decriminalization

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1. criminalization, criminalisationnoun

   legislation that makes something illegal

   "the criminalization of marijuana"

   Synonyms:
   criminalisation

   Antonyms:
   decriminalisation, decriminalization

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1. List of paraphrases for "criminalization":

   criminalisation, criminalizing, penalization, incrimination, criminality, penalisation, penalty, jeopardy, penalizing

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1. Nekima Levy-Pounds:

   You have mostly white officers patrolling a poor black neighborhood where they have no real nexus to the community, where there are high rates of complaints against the use of excessive force by police and the over-criminalization of the African American community.

2. Jose Maria Aranaz:

   We are very worried about this instrumentalization of the judiciary and the continued criminalization of civil society.

3. Carol Anderson:

   But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing.

4. Diane Goldstein:

   This initiative is the best chance California has to end a failed war on marijuana resulting in the criminalization of almost half a million people in the last decade.

5. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee:

   Having Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country. We must defend religious liberty and never surrender to judicial tyranny, i am proud of Kim for standing strong for her beliefs. Who will be next? Pastors? Photographers? Caterers? Florists? This is a reckless, appalling, out-of-control decision that undermines the Constitution of the United States and our fundamental right to religious liberty.