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criminalize definition - legal

v

  1. To make a particular conduct or omission a crime and to establish penal sanctions for it.
  2. To make a person, or to be the cause of making that person, a criminal. See also decriminalization.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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