Usually means: Making certain actions legally punishable.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. criminalization: Merriam-Webster
  2. criminalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. criminalization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. criminalization: Vocabulary.com
  5. Criminalization, criminalization: Wordnik
  6. criminalization: Wiktionary
  7. criminalization: Dictionary.com
  8. Criminalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. criminalization: Rhymezone
  10. criminalization: FreeDictionary.org
  11. criminalization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. criminalization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. criminalization: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

(Note: See criminalize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (criminalization)

noun:  The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
noun:  The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.

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