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Criminalization vs Stigmatization - What's the difference?

criminalization | stigmatization |

As nouns the difference between criminalization and stigmatization

is that criminalization is the act of making a previously legal activity illegal while stigmatization is the process or act of stigmatizing.

criminalization

English

Alternative forms

* criminalisation (mainly UK )

Noun

(-)
  • The act of making a previously legal activity illegal.

    • Antonyms

    * decriminalization

    stigmatization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process or act of stigmatizing.
    • the stigmatization of ethnic minorities
  • (theology) The production of stigmata upon the body.
    • the stigmatization of Saint Francis