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Examples of criminalize

criminalize
This criminality was increased by legislation that criminalized customary and informal economic activities.
Although the state might decide to criminalize hate speech, hate speech might be regulated without invoking the criminal law.
Intrinsically morally permissible conduct, such as driving without a seat belt, does not automatically become immoral upon being criminalized.
Fashioned from the same gender ideology that criminalized male desertion and non-support of families, they represented a form of state provision for social reproduction.
Accepting the general case for criminalizing mere offense will inevitably lead to restrictions on individuals' autonomy, especially because the criminal law is so coarse-grained.
It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing.
Indeed, they may be criminalized even though they do not cause harm at all.
And when we criminalize that element, we suppress that particular, valuable way of life.
The justification for criminalizing these cases is, in part, practical.
It is enough to meet the demands of the harm principle that, if the action were not criminalized, that would be harmful.
The conclusion that conduct is offensive (for the kind of reasons just proposed) is not sufficient to establish that the conduct should be criminalized.
The point of stating it is to illustrate the possibility of such arguments for criminalizing mere offense.
The subtext was that a greater national shame than criminalizing liquor distribution was in store if prohibition were abandoned.
Moreover, the omitted factor operates as a conceptual requirement of offense and not merely as something to be weighed in the balancing decision to criminalize.
We cannot say that the one should be criminalized because it reduces a person's options or capabilities more than the other.
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