criminalist
Americannoun
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an expert in criminalistics.
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a person who studies or practices criminology; criminologist.
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an expert in criminal law.
Etymology
Origin of criminalist
Example Sentences
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But they didn’t get a match until a criminalist at the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab manually plotted the characteristics from one of Morris’s fingers.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2020
“We were kind of shocked that Chris was no longer present at all,” said Darby Stienmetz, a criminalist at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
The defense attorneys also went lightly on Los Angeles police criminalist DeWayne Wolfer, who oversaw the crime-scene investigation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018
During the great snowstorm of early 2017, a Portland Police criminalist snapped a picture of a flock gathered next to headquarters.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2018
That knowledge of human nature is for this purpose most important to the criminalist will be as little challenged as the circumstance that such knowledge can not be acquired from books.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
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