Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state, quality, or fact of being criminal.
- noun A criminal practice or act.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
criminal . - noun countable A criminal act.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being a criminal
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Impulse control" may be the key factor in criminality (though I don't certify that), but it is not the most salient factor in "wealth accumulation."
Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Okay, before some pettifogging comment-lawyer jumps on me, criminality is not perfectly inverse to IQ: there is an IQ threshold below which individuals are too disabled even for a career of violent crime.
Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And the scope of her attempted criminality is on a par with stealing from children.
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I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education.
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The PCL-R was designed to discriminate psychopathic individuals from other criminals -- a job it does very well -- but this does not mean that criminality is essential to the construct of psychopathy ....
Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide Kim Cranston 2010
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Many school bullies are in the pipeline to prison: their problems with drugs and alcohol and violence are frighteningly easy to forecast, and studies have documented that the connection between school bullying and future criminality is real -- so real in fact that New York's district attorney's office has deployed staff from the prosecutor's office to visit schools and address bullying.
Kevin Cathcart: New Media, Old Problem Kevin Cathcart 2010
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The researchers reportedly go with one of the more obvious ones: Kids grouped with lots of other young delinquents end up enmeshed in a “culture of deviance” where criminality is both taught and valorized.
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Tenure does not protect a professor when criminality is involved.
You’re A Loudmouth Baby, You Better Shut It Up | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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More interesting to me is the effect of being branded as a criminal, quite apart from the lessons in criminality one might absorb in juvie.
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I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education.
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