OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 34915

criminalize

Meanings (ES + gloss)
ilegalizar • penalizar • prohibir
To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
"Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforc…
The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and th…
criminalizar
To treat as a criminal.