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criminology

[ US /ˌkɹɪmɪˈnɑɫədʒi/ ]
[ UK /kɹˌɪmɪnˈɒləd‍ʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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