The phrase "already criminalized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to actions or behaviors that have been made illegal prior to the current discussion or context.
Example: "The act of insider trading has already criminalized in many jurisdictions, making it a serious offense."
Alternatives: "previously outlawed" or "already made illegal".
And the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 has already criminalized the development of technologies that can be used to avoid copyright restrictions, making it effectively impossible for most people to illegally share certain copyrighted materials, including video games.
Like in many other sub-Saharan African countries, same-sex relations are already criminalized in Uganda.
The bill is popular in Uganda, but international rights groups have condemned it as draconian in a country where homosexuality is already criminalized.
"We have a community that's already criminalized," said Erika Almiron, executive director of the Philadelphia group Juntos and a member of the #Not1More campaign.
While previous legislation already criminalized same-sex conduct, the 2014 law officially authorizes abuses against LGBT people, effectively making a bad situation worse, a report by Human Rights Watch said in October 2016.
And then there are the thousands of trafficked people who don't work in the sex trade at all the majority of human-trafficking victims, according to many experts who are all but ignored by an enforcement system that relies on vice squads to target exploitation in an already criminalized industry.
Weirdly, the new law also criminalizes something that is already criminal in Nigeria: being gay.
Though this is not a nationwide survey with representative sampling and there could be sample bias, these figures only go on to tell that the "public morality" government is concerned about has little practical ground as people are already having "unnatural sex" criminalized under Section 377.
While Steeves has tried to explain away his wife's racist comments, his own policy proposals for a "safer downtown" Winnipeg seem to be drawn from the same misinformed well, focusing on "reducing crime" and further criminalizing already marginalized populations by "ban[ning] boulevard begging".
Small quantities of drugs for personal use have already been de-criminalized across Mexico, thanks to a law passed in 2009 that allows people to carry up to five grams of marijuana, half a gram of cocaine, and 50 milligrams of heroine, among other substances.
He's already said that the LGBT community should be criminalized.
