decriminalization
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English
Alternative forms
- (mainly UK) decriminalisation
Etymology
From de- + criminalization.
Pronunciation
Noun
decriminalization (uncountable)
- The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)
- the decriminalization of all plant-based psychedelics
- 2020 December 4, Deirdre Walsh, “House Approves Decriminalizing Marijuana; Bill To Stall In Senate”, in NPR:
- Some opponents also said federal decriminalization would contribute to more death and injury from impaired drivers using marijuana.
- The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
- 2006, Mark R. Munetz, Patricia M. Griffin, “Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an approach to decriminalization of people with serious mental illness”, in Psychiatric Services, 57(4), 544-549:
- 2012, Sverre Molland, The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 38:
- Most sex work feminists support either the legalization or the decriminalization of sex workers.
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- legal reclassification
Translations
making something no longer illegal
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turning a criminal into a non-criminal
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