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is criminalized
verb
To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
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The formative assessment also revealed that PWID face a great deal of stigma from the community as their behavior is criminalized and the community associates drug users with criminal activity since many engage in stealing as a means to support their drug habit.
reporting by individuals is criminalized as well.
> reporting by individuals is criminalized as well.
It isn't easy being gay almost anywhere in Africa: homosexuality is criminalized in 37 countries on the continent.
When typical misbehavior is criminalized, schools rob from students the few opportunities they have to demonstrate their academic potential.
In practice, the law is interpreted so broadly by the ultra-royalist judiciary that almost any frank discussion of the monarchy and its problems is criminalized.
As the New Yorker's Jane Mayer told whistleblower advocate Jesselyn Radack last year: "When our sources are prosecuted, the news-gathering process is criminalized, so it's incumbent upon all journalists to speak up".
Marciano contracted a disease through no fault of his own, in the same way that most of us get a cold or the flu every winter, and yet he is criminalized as a result.
They say the lack of diversity is emblematic of how, across the country, African Americans are disproportionately locked up when marijuana use is criminalized yet are shut out of the profits when drug sales are legalized.
Hong Kongers must wonder: If Uighur culture is criminalized and Xinjiang's supposed autonomy is a sham, what will happen to their own vibrant Cantonese culture and their city's shaky "one country, two systems" arrangement with Beijing?
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Normal adolescent behavior--like Cameron's milk fight in the cafeteria or cursing a teacher--is criminalized as assault.
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