criminalizations
Acts banning behaviors
Criminalizations are acts of making something illegal, or instances of treating people or behaviors as criminal.
The word appears in policy debates about drug laws, immigration, and social issues: The criminalizations of marijuana use varied widely by state.
Often carries critical connotations, suggesting that law has been applied where it shouldn't be.
Enforceable societal rules
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- enactmentPassing into law
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
bans · ordinances · regulations · amendments · penalties · sanctions · sentencing · enforcement
Relegation to powerless periphery
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- targetingSelecting as objective
persecution · profiling · surveillance · incarceration · disproportionate · minorities · activism · advocacy
Authoritative legal ban
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- sodomy lawsStatutes criminalizing particular sexual behaviors
miscegenation · suffrage · blasphemy · sedition · heresy · witchcraft · adultery · desertion
Consuming intoxicating substances
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
dissent · gambling · substances · possession · solicitation · loitering · trespassing · jaywalking
laws
Enforceable societal rules
- statutesFormally enacted laws
- enactmentPassing into law
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
legislation · bans · ordinances · regulations · amendments · penalties · sanctions · sentencing · enforcement · decrees
marginalization
Relegation to powerless periphery
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
targeting · persecution · profiling · surveillance · incarceration · disproportionate · minorities · activism · advocacy · reform movements
prohibition
Authoritative legal ban
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
sodomy laws · miscegenation · suffrage · blasphemy · sedition · heresy · witchcraft · adultery · desertion · usury
drug use
Consuming intoxicating substances
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
immigration · dissent · gambling · substances · possession · solicitation · loitering · trespassing · jaywalking · sex work
criminalizationslegalizations
Acts making something lawful
authorizations · permissions · deregulations · sanctions · repeals
criminalizationsnormalizations
Acts of making regular
tolerations · liberalizations · acceptances · endorsements · approvals