No. 4,601 in Portuguese
criminaliza
"Criminaliza" means "criminalizes," referring to the act of making something illegal or treating it as a crime.
In a sentence
A lei criminaliza o tráfico de drogas.
The law criminalizes drug trafficking.
The word 'criminaliza' is used in a legal context to indicate that drug trafficking is defined as a crime according to the law.
A política criminaliza atos de corrupção governamental.
The policy criminalizes acts of governmental corruption.
'criminaliza' here is used to describe the legislative action that makes government corruption punishable as a crime.
A sociedade frequentemente criminaliza indivíduos marginalizados.
Society often criminalizes marginalized individuals.
In this sentence, 'criminaliza' is employed metaphorically to express societal tendencies to unjustly label marginalized individuals as criminal or deviant.
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