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What does criminalization mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of making a previously legal activity illegal.
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The attitude toward the poor is at best one of official indifference, and at worst outright criminalization.
In that regard, attention was drawn specifically to the Convention's provisions governing criminalization and international legal cooperation.
There is considerable support for the specific criminalization of suicide bombing as part of the terrorist activity defined in the code.
More work is needed to combat the problem of stigma and discrimination, universal access and criminalization.
The criminalization of victims was always a subject of deep concern to the Committee.
Far from protecting women, criminalization victimizes, oppresses and endangers them.

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