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What is decriminalization?

What is decriminalization? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of making a previously illegal activity no longer treatable as a criminal offence.
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The fourth broad theme is central to the entire report and calls for the decriminalization of youth with mental health disorders.
Perhaps they were counting on the forbearance of their host, who, as a candidate, had advocated the decriminalization of cannabis.
There is de facto decriminalization in the Netherlands for the possession of cannabis for personal use.
Other legislative actions and law enforcement practices aimed at the decriminalization of vulnerable sectors of the population are in the works.
Other important figures supported decriminalization or legalization in the 1970s with arguments that resembled those that would be used twenty years later.
However, authorities can address the decriminalization of children in two other ways.

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