criminology
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Origin of criminology
1855–60; < Latin crīmin- (stem of crīmen; see crime) + -o- + -logy
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A 2018 Criminology paper found that undocumented immigration has no effect on violent crime and may reduce certain offenses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
There he had played lacrosse and mentored youth in Orange County as part of the Criminology Outreach Program.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025
In 2011, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology hired him as a lecturer and he moved to Ireland with his wife, now a secretary at a Dublin synagogue, and their four children.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
Gregg Barak is an emeritus professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University and author of "Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways to Understanding" and "Criminology on Trump."
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023
As far as pathological stealing is concerned a number of very suggestive studies have already appeared, a review of which Albrecht has prepared for the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
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