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criminalist

American  
[krim-uh-nl-ist] / ˈkrɪm ə nl ɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in criminalistics.

  2. a person who studies or practices criminology; criminologist.

  3. an expert in criminal law.


Etymology

Origin of criminalist

First recorded in 1625–35; criminal + -ist

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

Paul Bush, a criminalist supervisor with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, testified that the DNA in the blood matched that of Burns.

From Seattle Times Feb. 24, 2020

She and several others received a Police Meritorious Service Medal, the highest award for a civilian employee, and she remains a criminalist in the LAPD.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2019

He was, until October 2016, a criminalist at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in the Department of Forensic Biology in New York.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2018

Suppose that a criminalist has worked hard all morning.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross

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