The phrase "a criminalisation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of making something illegal or treating it as a crime.
Example: "The government is considering a criminalisation of certain online activities that pose a threat to national security."
Alternatives: "an outlawing" or "a prohibition".
Unemployed people and campaigners have condemned George Osborne's announcement that long-term unemployed people will be forced to work unpaid or face losing their social security as a criminalisation of unemployed people.
This was a season that was marked by the death of Jimmy Romero, the Deportivo de La Coruña fan murdered before his team's game against Atlético at the Calderón, a death that brought with it a criminalisation of football fans and a dangerous false equivalency between chanting things and killing people.
The limitation of certain conduct in all public spaces within a council's jurisdiction causes a "criminalisation" of certain individuals whereby certain categories of people are proscribed from "existing" and "functioning" as human beings in that area (Mitchell, 1995 and Mitchell 1997).
In the post-Reformation period there was a criminalisation of women.
In the post-Reformation period there was a criminalisation of women, partly evident in witchcraft prosecutions from 1563.
But it bears repeating: proposing a criminalisation of women demonstrates little understanding of the broader context and reasons why women might be seeking sex-selective abortions.
The case is seen by women's rights activists as part of a creeping criminalisation of pregnant women.
Protesters moving online may find the laws dramatically harsher than their offline equivalents: a gradual criminalisation of dissent.
Köhler said: "A blanket criminalisation of everyone who travels to Syria would only confirm their radical ideology, which criticises the west for its blanket discrimination of all Muslims.
As Yugoslavia collapsed around them, the fate of the nation became apparent: conflict, militias and a total criminalisation of the state.
Responsibility for this state of affairs lay with Conté, whose government was characterised not only by "state-sponsored abuses and repression", but by "an increasing criminalisation of the state" in which assets were seized and exploited by his close associates, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
