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Criminology   Listen
noun
Criminology  n.  
1.
A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
2.
The branch of sociology which studies crime and criminals.





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"Criminology" Quotes from Famous Books



... treat the man simply as a man, and give him no more and no less favour than he would to anybody else. In short, I am sure a practical physician would drop all these visionary, unworkable modern dreams about type and criminology and go back to the plain business-like facts of the French Revolution and the ...
— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton
... that I got him interested in criminology. To his mind each crime is merely a scientific problem which he goes about solving as if it were any other scientific problem. It is only recently that he has begun to take an active interest in the ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew


Words linked to "Criminology" :   criminological, poenology, penology, sociology


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