criminology
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of criminology
1855–60; < Latin crīmin- (stem of crīmen; see crime) + -o- + -logy
Example Sentences
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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
Figures from the Queensland Police Service and the Australian Institute of Criminology also demonstrate a clear downward trend.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
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
Criminology, for example, was an obvious by-product; it was no morbid taste in Hilton Toye, but a scientific hobby that appealed to his mental subtlety.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
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