Sentence examples for it was criminalized from inspiring English sources
The first U.S. federal law against it was a tax act in 1937, and it was criminalized in 1952.
"The work that they do is just like any other job, except it's criminalized," said Rachel West, a spokeswoman for the US Prostitutes Collective, a network of sex workers based in San Francisco that staged a small protest over the sit-lie law on Thursday afternoon.
"If safety information is silenced because, it's criminalized, that puts people at risk," she said.
It was reported that FGM is now done secretly, because it is criminalized.
Like earlier versions, the new House bill contains no exception to protect the health of the pregnant woman and does not use medical terminology to describe the actions it is criminalizing, leaving its terms unconstitutionally vague.
Its opening sentence reads: The intent of this act is to make attrition [of the immigrant population] through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. In short, it is criminalizing immigration-related violations under state law not to deal with immigrant-related crimes but to give state authorities expanded tools to drive out immigrants.
Denver's City Council is considering an ordinance to "ban unauthorized camping" throughout the city, The Denver Post recently reported, and critics of the controversial bill say it is criminalizing homelessness.
"Politics was criminalized and crime was politicized.
The drug was criminalized in the United States in 1985.
Instead, she was criminalized.
Citizen protest was criminalized.
