The phrase "a criminalized act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an action that has been made illegal by law or regulation.
Example: "The new legislation has turned what was once a common practice into a criminalized act."
Alternatives: "an illegal act" or "a prohibited action".
It is illegal to molest a child and sell a video of this sort of child pornography, and the same should be true for the most extreme and widely criminalized acts of animal cruelty.
It appears to be a criminalized, paternalistic autocracy.
It was between a criminalized transition and civil war, which was a real possibility".
He answered simply: "Our choice was between a criminalized transition [to a market economy] and civil war".
But upon reflection the council decided police have better things to do than deal with a criminalized fashion choice.
Client drug use is a situation that starkly clarifies the difference between a criminalized person and a more privileged person who sometimes indulges in criminalized behavior behind closed doors.
It's almost impossible to disentangle the harms caused by the drug business and the harms caused by the fact it's a criminalized industry.
First, by elevating this 40-year-old case to top priority, Obama's Justice Department is actively memorializing the struggle for black freedom of that era, but in a way that offers us a criminalized, even militarized interpretation of it.
The problem with decriminalization is the wholesale market remains a criminalized market, so how can you allow people to have access to a market which is at a wholesale level criminal?
Instead, they argued before the court, the charge, which carries no formal definition in the Criminal Code, was linked to 'buggery' — a similar charge also criminalized homosexual acts — and therefore required penetration.
