criminalisation vs legislation

criminalisation and legislation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
criminalisation	Yes	No	No	No
legislation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, legislation is a hypernym of criminalisation; that is, legislation is a word with a broader meaning than criminalisation:

Other hypernyms of criminalisation include lawmaking, legislating.

criminalisation (noun)	legislation (noun)
legislation that makes something illegal	the act of making or enacting laws
	law enacted by a legislative body