Criminalise in a sentence

Contrary to the promise of an “independent judiciary”, the courts have been used as a tool to criminalise peaceful dissent.

IDCare, a non-profit that helps internet crime victims, said by making it easier for regulators to fine companies for poor data security and failing to criminalise ransom payment, Australia may inadvertently fuel a cyber-crimewave.

It will criminalise attempts to restrict access, for example by chaining doors closed, to clinics providing abortion services and “influencing a decision”, but it will not infringe on the right to freedom of expression.

Ms McManus says a looming crackdown that will criminalise wage theft federally will put money back in the pockets of workers amid the cost-of-living crisis.

The government has indicated that nationally consistent laws to criminalise wage theft will be introduced in the coming months,” Ms Thistleton said.

The national security bill working its way through parliament may criminalise certain aspects of investigative reporting and reform the Official Secrets Act.

Today Labor will introduces amendments to the to criminalise breaching bridging visa conditions, a direct response to the recent High Court decision that found indefinite immigration detention unlawful.

Central Arrernte man Declan Furber Gillick said comments being made threatened to “demonise and continue to criminalise young people”.

It is easy to criminalise this category of youth, as we have seen with the handling of insurgency and banditry in most parts of the northwest and northeast regions.

Repealing and replacing the Vagrancy Act with the proposed Criminal Justice Bill will further demonise and criminalise those sleeping rough, simply for the ‘major’ of crime of being “smelly”.

Reports on hawkers as perpetrators of crimes in traffic have relied on political narratives and biases from law enforcement authorities and government agencies, which which mostly criminalise a group of hawkers from a particular section of the country.

The act, of which Ofcom is the regulator, is not intended to criminalise the creation of such deepfake content but will make sharing and threatening to share such content a criminal offence.

The publication of the 86-page consultation is a key stage in a process which will criminalise attempts to change or suppress the gender identity or sexual orientation of another person.

The South Australian government is introducing new legislation to criminalise sexually explicit deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.

The traditional ruler also cited several provisions of Islamic jurisprudence that prohibited violence against women, saying that the government must criminalise any act of maltreatment against women in a marriage.

Honourable Raji is proposing a bill to prohibit and criminalise casualisation of workers after 6 months of engagement by employers.

Much of the law is considered to be tailor-made to target and criminalise those leading the protests.

Official discourse is starting to criminalise and demonise the movement, which remains peaceful despite police brutality steadily increasing.

The central thrust of his lawyers' extradition challenge, however, revolves around the argument that to criminalise Assange would make it unlawful for news outlets to publish stories based on leaked government documents.

These are examples of "coercive control", which White Ribbon and other campaigners are lobbying state governments to criminalise.