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/ˌkɹɪmɪˈnɑɫədʒi/
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[ UK /kɹˌɪmɪnˈɒlədʒi/ ]
[ UK /kɹˌɪmɪnˈɒlədʒi/ ]
NOUN
- the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
How To Use criminology In A Sentence
- His apparent heresy is not that of the smooth talking cleric, but the statistician specialising in the field of criminology.
- Critical criminology was, of course, morally committed to social justice. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
- Significantly, they have been hugely overlooked as a source of knowledge about criminality within histories of criminology and theories of crime and deviance.
- It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
- Classical criminology did not assume that existing legal definitions of crime and the way they are enforced necessarily constitute this objective category.
- In fact, the arguments about the injustice of rehabilitation apply equally to classical criminology's advocacy of efficient deterrence.
- This formed the theoretical background for the present crisis in critical criminology. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
- Among these contributors will be some of the movers and shakers of criminology in the coming years: and the sharpness and recency of their experience can be expected to resonate with those of the generation to come.
- He retired from the police in 2013 and become a criminology lecturer at a university where he befriended the vulnerable woman. The Sun
- This is a relatively new science in criminology.