Criminalise used in a sentence

Criminalise in a sentence as a verb

"It's not going to be used to criminalise people," she says.

If you criminalise buying, less people will buy it, therefore the sellers will be less visible.

But you cannot criminalise maths, you can only do that with mathematicians like Alan Turing.

But, how many people can you genuinely criminalise who aren't known associates?

You may have problems and I believe that we should make government assistance available for those that do. However right now the state and its laws criminalise whole swathes of society for no good reason - there is no victim.

" and "Obama is trying to criminalise investigative journalists".His being a lawyer is supposed to be a big part of what makes him a good journalist.

You want to criminalise failure to recycle, or failure to provide a work environment that's unreceptive to disabled persons?

There seems to be too much to learn about the function of the self that it almost seems irresponsible to wash this aside and criminalise it with a last centuries mindset.

Yeah, one sex worker rights activists described the approach politicians take to prostitution as "they don't criminalise us, they just criminalise everyone around us".

Is more like if you wrote out your customers personal data in a book left nailed to a front door that opens onto a public street and then tried to criminalise anyone who looked at pages that weren't relevant to them.

I accept what your point which I take to be that a law or regulation that attempted a narrow definition of tools thought to be for criminal purposes would still criminalise legitimate activities.

There was a good article of how this "criminalise everyone, and then only prosecute the ones you don't like" attitude was essentially how the US operates by default nowadays - It was on HN a few months ago but I can't find it now.

Just reading it it seems like you can accuse anyone of "stalking" even after contacting you a couple of times...I'm not saying such laws aren't good, I'm just saying that the way that particular one is written means that it couple potentially overly criminalise a lot of situations.

Worse still is the government interference that seems to want to use law to criminalise citizens who are obeying the laws of supply and demand, while offering a protection racket to the very organisation who should be primarily guided by it, but chose to ignore it.