criminalize

verb

1. （通过新的法律）使不合法，使非法
   to make sth illegal by passing a new law
   1. The use of opium was not criminalized until fairly recently.
      直到最近抽***才被判定为非法。
2. 把…当罪犯对待
   to treat sb as a criminal

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 criminalise


1. VERB 使不合法;使非法
   If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
   1. There is no move to criminalise alcohol.
      没有采取禁酒措施。
   2. ...a deliberate campaign to criminalise members of the former government.
      蓄意给前政府成员定罪的运动

1. The Trafficking Protocol requires ratifying nations to criminalize human trafficking and help victims.
   议定书将走私人口视为犯罪，要求签署国制裁人口走私行为，并帮助受害者。
2. The work of a journeyman. Abusive employers are complicit, and lax Taiwanese labor laws criminalize workers who flee.
   雇佣性工作雇佣工的工作施虐的雇主是共犯，而松弛的台湾劳工法让逃跑的外劳成了罪犯。
3. Some religious groups have argued the law could criminalize conservative speech, but the Attorney General says it would be used only to prosecute violence.
   一些宗教团体辩称，该法律会宣布保守派言论为非法，但是司法部长称，该法律将仅用于对暴力事件进行起诉。
4. China doesn't have any laws that specifically criminalize transmission of HIV.
   中国并没有将传播艾滋病刑事化的具体法律条款。
5. France'to criminalize shouting at your wife '.
   丈夫辱骂妻子将涉嫌违法。
6. UNAIDS says laws in Asia against same-sex relations and that criminalize drug addicts and sex workers undermine prevention and treatment programs, putting more people at risk of infection.
   UNAIDS表示，亚洲地区反对同性关系，将吸毒与性工作定为犯罪的法律也危害了艾滋病的预防和治疗项目，使越来越多的人面临感染这种疾病的危险。
7. Why can not criminalize the "sex bribe"?
   为什么不能将性贿赂犯罪化？
8. Facing the fact that network is more and more popular, and the high rate of exposed unlawful and criminal cases committed in cyberspace, it is urgent to criminalize the act of unlawfully using network resources which is of great harmful to cyberspace as theft.
   而网络日益普遍的现实，以及网络空间中违法犯罪的高发态势，导致将网络空间中危害巨大的非法使用网络资源的使用盗窃行为，加以入罪化，已经迫在眉睫。
9. It is necessary to criminalize monopolies doing great harm to society, and many countries'antitrust monopoly acts or competition laws have stipulated that some monopolies should commit crime.
   垄断具有严重的社会危害性，将垄断犯罪化既有理论依据，也有法律依据。
10. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States introduces a wholly new measurement, that is, to criminalize the bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations, and to strengthen the internal-control responsibility of the corporations to avoid bribery.
    美国《反海外腐败法》引入了经济全球化时代治理腐败的全新理念&将贿赂外国官员或国际公共组织官员的行为规定为犯罪，并通过加强公司内部治理尽量避免贿赂行为的发生。
11. To effectively contain the spread, the international community gradually through a series of international conventions and national legislation to criminalize money laundering activities, aimed at its prevention, control and regulation.
    为有效遏制其蔓延，国际社会逐渐通过了一系列国际公约和国内立法对洗钱活动予以犯罪化意在对其进行预防、控制及规制。
12. On the objective part, most of countries regulate the conduct ways of bribery as three kinds that is accepting, claiming or agreeing and distinguish the conduct ways into two phrases, then criminalize them respectively.
    客观方面，多数国家将受贿的行为方式规定为收受、索取或者约定三种，并将其区分为两个阶段，分别予以犯罪化。

verb

1. declare illegal
   1. Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.

   Synonym:    outlawcriminaliseillegalizeillegalise

2. treat as a criminal