Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > socioeconomic, political, and religious issues > criminalization and decriminalization

Preferred term

criminalization and decriminalization  

Definition

  • Criminalization is the legislative decision to make a noncriminal act into a criminal act. Decriminalization is just the opposite; it is the legislative decision to make a once criminal act into a noncriminal act. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Criminalization and Decriminalization]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-R9FX8GS5-G

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD