Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific study of crime, criminals, criminal behavior, and corrections.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of crime.
- noun The science of crime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
- noun The branch of sociology which studies crime and criminals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of
crime andcriminals , especially theirbehaviour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
Etymologies
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Examples
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With a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of California at Berkeley, he came to
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The literature on policing and criminology is loaded with examples of successful crime reduction that began with seemingly small things, like quelling aggressive solicitation.
We Must Not Allow Intimidation on Seattle’s Streets « PubliCola 2010
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McIntosh left Miami with degrees in criminology and English.
Redskins' Rocky McIntosh keeps people guessing Rick Maese 2010
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Get a degree in criminology and get into law enforcement.
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"She's a unique case in Hungarian criminology," Szabo admitted.
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My educational background is in criminology and library science, and I’ve worked in and around criminal justice for the past twelve years.
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“Having exclusively military installations [as targets] helps you little, because you have hundreds of recruiting stations and other military things,” said Garrett, who also has a PhD in criminology.
Former FBI agent Brad Garrett: Tips crucial to cracking case of mysterious shootings Jeff Stein 2010
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Olsen is coming out as junior and has earned a degree in criminology.
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The science of the phenomena of crime is called criminology, that of punishment is named penology.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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In the second place, law students at the university ought to be admitted to what Ellero called a science of clinical criminology, that is to interviews with and systematic observations of prisoners.
Criminal Sociology 1899
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