Definition of "criminalized" [criminalized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize. (verb)

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• "If women with arrest records are categorically unworthy of trust, wouldn't that apply to those Melissa Farley cites as wanting prostitution to remain criminalized as well as those who argue for legalization?"
• "All the people who use it now will just find some other alternative to smoking pot if it is criminalized, which is why people buy the expens"
• "More relevant to his role in the Middle East, Falk, a retired professor, wrote -- before he even began his job -- that it is not an "irresponsible overstatement" to accuse Israel of perpetrating a "criminalized" Nazi Holocaust on the Palestinian people."