The word 'criminalise' is a correct word and can be used in written English.
You can use 'criminalise' when you want to describe the action of making something illegal or against the law. For example: "The government is considering criminalising the possession of certain types of drugs." This means that the possession of these drugs would become a criminal offense.
If we want to shift the criminal burden from vulnerable women, both trafficked and local, to men, we have to criminalise the punters.
Iran and its Arab neighbours, however, criminalise homosexuality.
Lawyers acting for Birmingham students fear that the terms of the order granted by Judge David Grant on 25 November are broad enough to potentially criminalise any protest in which participants remain in any location for any period of time.
We criminalise employers of forced labour in catering and construction, so why should prostitution be a special case?
It will criminalise the trade in legal highs with prison sentences of up to seven years but will not make personal possession a criminal offence.
Despite continuing efforts to criminalise this practice, those who perpetrate this crime in countries such as Niger and Mauritania routinely go unpunished.
It is a "Rescue fund to help LGBT people escape Africa" and is aimed at "Gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people persecuted and trapped in African countries that criminalise their sexuality".
When university management try to criminalise dissent and discipline us for it, they are not just attacking students, but also the right to political expression.
"Laws to criminalise defamation in Turkey have only ever been implemented to protect the rights of the majority, never against vulnerable minorities," notes Emma Sinclair-Webb, of Human Rights Watch.
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In September 2011 the Assam State Commission for Women, which has a wide-ranging mandate to improve women's welfare, presented draft legislation to criminalise witch-hunting to the state's chief minister.
