criminology
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criminology (countable and uncountable, plural criminologies)
- The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour.
- 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283:
- "So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places."
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the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour
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