The phrase "a criminalization" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act or process of making something a crime or illegal.
Example: "The new law represents a criminalization of previously accepted practices in the industry."
Alternatives: "an outlawing" or "a prohibition".
In a report in May, the organization, which has 56 member states, described concerns in Kyrgyzstan about "a criminalization of the political process".
It might necessitate a criminalization of adolescent pain, since the level of legal procedure necessary to make someone ineligible to buy a gun would, presumably, be higher than what would be needed to guide a teen-ager to a therapist.
Under the portions of S.B. 1070 that the lower federal courts have blocked, it is a crime, subject to imprisonment and a fine, for an "unauthorized alien" to seek work, a "criminalization of work" that has no counterpart in federal law.
In the contrast between what has happened since 1964 with tobacco, on the one hand, and marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other banned substances, on the other, we have an instructive lesson in the comparative effects of choosing a public-health or a criminalization paradigm for dealing with addictive substances.
Denver can do better than a criminalization approach.
This brings about, as a consequence, a criminalization of protest and possibly even a 'terrorization' of other crimes".
Benedet says what's good about the bill is that "there's a direct criminalization of sex purchasing which sends a clear message that buying women is not acceptable".
Second, the characteristics of camps in Europe also highlight that (refugee) migration is deeply related to discourses on crime, terror and a general criminalization of migration (Wacquant, 2012).
As a result, criminalization itself undermines the disease model.
Where African-Americans are four times more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than whites despite the fact that statistics show the two groups use the drug at similar rates, the War on Drugs is one example of a systematic criminalization of race that is completely contrary to liberal values.
As a result, there has been an "escalating criminalization" in the trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, Ashe said.
