Definition of Criminalizing

1. Verb. (present participle of criminalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Criminalizing

1. criminalize [v] - See also: criminalize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminalizing

criminalisation
criminalise
criminalised
criminalises
criminalising
criminalism
criminalist
criminalistics
criminalists
criminalities
criminality
criminalization
criminalize
criminalized
criminalizes
criminalizing (current term)
criminally
criminalness
criminals
criminate
criminated
criminates
criminating
crimination
criminations
criminative
criminatory
crimine
criminently
criminetly

Literary usage of Criminalizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"Laws criminalizing so broad and ill-specified a range of behaviors are clearly not ones that allow individuals to say with certainty whether a particular ..."

2. Guatemala's Forgotten Children: Police Violence and Abuses in Detention by Lee Tucker, Human Rights Watch/Americas (1997)
"... criminalizing Poverty: Unequal Justice Based on Economic Status Being poor is the surest indicator that a child who enters the system will end up in ..."

3. Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky (2003)
"The percentage of America's mentally ill population either living in prison, or having recently come out of prison, increased dramatically.43 "criminalizing ..."

4. In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt's Crackdown on by Human Rights Watch (Organization)., Human Rights Watch (2004)
"475 Conceivably lawmakers simply believed that no man would consent to being anally penetrated except for money, and that criminalizing male "debauchery" ..."

5. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"The Media Trial judges found no problem in criminalizing the pre-plane crash broadcasts along with those thereafter. There is no doubt that the likely ..."

6. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 by Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (1999)
"Laws in six states were either passed or put into effect in 1999 criminalizing custodial sexual misconduct in prisons, although the new West Virginia law ..."

7. All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons by Dorothy Q. Thomas (1996)
"When we began this investigation, only two of the states that we visited, Michigan and Georgia, had provisions in their penal codes criminalizing sexual ..."

8. A New Agenda for Forest Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Making Forest by Sara J. Scherr, Andy White, David Kaimowitz (2004)
"The Perverse Impacts of criminalizing Local Forest Enterprise Given the continued high demand for forest products in forests that are heavily populated or ..."

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