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1647 W. Strickland Let. in H. Cary Memorials Great Civil War (1842) I. 305 Publishing declarations by which they are criminalized and made traitors.

1660 G. Bridges tr. Duc de Rohan Memoires i. 51 Luynes..did all the ill offices he could to the Duke of Rohan, endeavoured to criminalize him, for buying the government of Maillezais.

1854 Law Mag. Feb. 52 Young offenders had better be reformed than criminalized.

1888 Waukesha (Wisconsin) Freeman 27 Sept. 2/2 The right to pauperize or criminalize our brother never existed and never can exist.

1966 A. Ginsberg Interview in Spontaneous Mind (2001) 63 I really felt that in a funny way Huncke's victimage overweighed his actions as a robber... He had been criminalized by one part of the state and forced into a position of acting illegally.

1996 Independent 30 Dec. i. 5/3 Critics say the new act..is opaque and will effectively criminalise 300,000 people currently involved in legitimate network marketing.

2005 Nation 1 Aug. 24/2 The statute criminalizes leakers rather than leakees, unless the leakees are engaged in ‘a pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents’.

?c1832 Princ. Penal Law iii. v, in J. Bentham Wks. (1843) I. 544/1 Asceticism has sought to brand and criminalize the desires to which nature has confided the perpetuity of the species.

1893 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 31 Oct. 4/2 The play..was none other than a channel through which hell..was turned loose in our city, to curse the coming generation.., to criminalize their deeds and sow lawlessness.

1906 Columbia Law Rev. 6 169 It may confiscate the goods..or criminalize the selling of them.

1977 Times 23 Feb. 4 Herr Dutschke described the British Government as ‘fascist’, and said it had ‘criminalized political opposition’.

2004 New Internationalist Sept. 36/3 In 2004 the Philippine Congress approved a bill criminalizing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

1890 S. W. Small Pleas for Prohibition i. 9 Rather than suffer banishment and criminalization, the men engaged in the traffic will consent to any terms and burdens that will yet leave life and profit in their business.

1907 Public 2 Mar. 1132/1 The prosecution..was in fact for the criminalization of sympathetic strikes.

1991 Sci. Amer. Oct. 110/2 The criminalization of the hacker.

2001 Independent 23 July i. 13/4 What price-fixers do is get together in secret to give customers a bad deal. That's plain wrong and I'm in favour of its criminalisation.