criminalisation love

criminalisation

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK Alternative form of criminalization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun legislation that makes something illegal

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word criminalisation.

Examples

  • Hafidz, would you call criminalisation of anal sex or oral sex a "constitutionalised repression that nobody has yet to ask to be amended just yet"?

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • This war is called criminalisation and its perpetrators are governments we naively looked to to protect our rights.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • The NGO, the Trust for Community Outreach and Education, says the tribunal may also consider the "criminalisation" of land dispossession and landlessness.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • There is scant coverage of the trial outcomes this week in the mainstream media because it doesn't fit the 'criminalisation' script that all of Shell's friends are working off.

    Indymedia Ireland Andrew N Flood 2010

  • The moves have been attacked as part of an increasing 'criminalisation' of the middle-classes by the police.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The moves have been attacked as part of an increasing 'criminalisation' of the middle-classes by the police.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • They also contend that this policy diverts attention from the larger issues of electoral reform such as criminalisation of politics and inner party democracy.

    India Together - The news in proportion. 2008

  • 'criminalisation' of otherwise law-abiding citizens, whose only 'crime' is to use their own money as they see fit.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • "Although they have fewer than 900 members, they still hope to stir mutiny among sections of the electorate unhappy with" criminalisation "of file sharing," excessive surveillance "and what it sees as limits to free speech.

    techPresident Antonella Napolitano 2010

  • After all in a number of the EU countries state offices are, on the contrary, obliged to buy works of art under law, "Sozansky said, adding that the" criminalisation "of the purchase for the NKU reminds him of the arbitrary practices of the previous communist regime.

    Prague Monitor 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.