What is another word for criminalizing?
Synonyms for criminalizing
crim·i·nal·iz·ing
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List of paraphrases for "criminalizing":
criminalization, penalizing, criminalising, penalising, criminalisation, criminalize, incriminating, penalise, penalization
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#62027 | incriminating | |
#84851 | criminalize | |
#92253 | criminalization | |
#102525 | criminalizing | |
#109882 | penalizing | |
#122695 | penalise | |
#164298 | criminalisation | |
#217194 | penalising | |
#270402 | penalization | |
#292377 | criminalising |
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When the state supports this kind of discourse in any way by criminalizing women for the way they dress or how they present themselves, it gives a green light for these people, this happens a lot.
Your Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors.
It will be -- when this legislation passes -- a criminal act to support terrorism, so, that is criminalizing speech rather than behavior. That one, I bet, will be tested in the courts.
This sounds great, but commercial facial recognition technologies used by Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have been found to be 40 % inaccurate when identifying Black people, so this will lead to Black people being more likely to be misidentified as attempting to commit fraud, potentially criminalizing them.
So then we get to Lawrence v. Texas, which was a Texas law criminalizing sodomy, and judicial activism ignored the immorality of homosexuality and created this fabricated right to privacy that was in the penumbra of the Constitution and determined that homosexuality is within that right to privacy in the penumbra of the Constitution. And the Supreme Court with judicial activist motivations overturn that law.
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