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crim·i·nol·o·gy

 (krĭm′ə-nŏl′ə-jē)
n.
The scientific study of crime, criminals, criminal behavior, and corrections.

[Italian criminologia : Latin crīmen, crīmin-, accusation; see crime + Latin -logia, -logy.]

crim′i·no·log′i·cal (-nə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.
crim′i·no·log′i·cal·ly adv.
crim′i·nol′o·gist n.
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criminology

(ˌkrɪmɪˈnɒlədʒɪ)
n
(Law) the scientific study of crime, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, etc. See also penology
[C19: from Latin crimin- crime, -logy]
criminological, ˌcriminoˈlogic adj
ˌcriminoˈlogically adv
ˌcrimiˈnologist n
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crim•i•nol•o•gy

(ˌkrɪm əˈnɒl ə dʒi)

n.
the sociological study of crime and criminals.
[1855–60; < Latin crīmin-, s. of crīmen (see crime) + -o- + -logy]
crim`i•no•log′i•cal (-nlˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl) adj.
crim`i•no•log′i•cal•ly, adv.
crim`i•nol′o•gist, n.
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criminology

the scientific study of crime and criminals. — criminologist, n. — criminologic, criminological, adj.
See also: Crime
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criminology

The study of crime and the behavior of criminals.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.criminology - the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
sociology - the study and classification of human societies
penology, poenology - the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation
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Translations
criminología
kriminologiarikosoppi
criminologie
kriminologija
criminologia

criminology

[ˌkrɪmɪˈnɒlədʒɪ] Ncriminología f
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criminology

[ˌkrɪmɪˈnɒlədʒi] ncriminologie f
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criminology

nKriminologie f
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criminology

[ˌkrɪmɪˈnɒlədʒɪ] ncriminologia
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Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.
Rather a joke, Bunny: the man whose house I've taken is one of her Majesty's inspectors of prisons, and his study's a storehouse of criminology. It has been quite amusing to lie on one's back and have a good look at one's self as others fondly imagine they see one."
In a recent ceremony at Camp Bagong Diwa, Eleazar recognized the top performers in the recruitment program, namely: Kevin Gessler Domasig Paris, 27, an electronics and communication engineering graduate, who emerged as class topnotcher; Carl Macabare Mantes, 21, a criminology graduate; Maria-rijuron Bangloy Bayang, 23, also a criminology graduate;
McGarry and Walklate aim to expose the study of war within criminology to an awareness of its past, its emergence over time, and to offer some mindfulness of the broader types of interdisciplinary literature from which it derives and to which it relates.
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A RURAL CRIMINOLOGY? NOT A CRIMINOLOGY that applies the well-worn approaches to theory and method that characterize and constitute criminology writ large to rural issues, spaces, and people (see Donnermeyer & DeKeseredy 2013), but a criminology that takes rurality as more than a site of opportunistic analysis?
Her research interests include criminology, appearance bias, animal rights, academic misconduct and ethical violations, and all measures of social inequality.
Peshawar -- Speakers at the first-ever national conference on criminology Friday called for modernizing the crime investigation techniques through massive reforms in order to counter the weaker law and order situation emanating from the ongoing war against terrorism in the country.
It is about time the crime investigators do away with techniques dating back to the British Raj and adopt modern technologies, said Department of Criminology Chairman Dr Basharat Hussain.
President Duterte has signed a law regulating the practice of criminology profession in the country.
Around 1,400 criminology experts from 70 countries of the world gathered in Sarajevo yesterday to mark the anniversary of the European Society of Criminology.
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