Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who studies crimes with reference to their origin, propagation, prevention, punishment, etc.

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  • noun A person who is skilled in, or practices criminology

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  • noun a specialist in criminology

Etymologies

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From criminology +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • He became well known as a criminologist and also as an advocate of laws for the safeguarding of the public health and against adulteration of food.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • He returned to the library, where he lost himself in the rare old volumes of Grimsby's life collection: the criminologist was a booklover and the hours drifted by as in a happy playtime, until the butler came to tell him the time.

    The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

  • CBI has also contested a letter written by a so-called criminologist on the issue as malafide and gave a para-wise rebuttal of charges levelled against the forensic doctors who had conducted the post-mortem as well as DNA examination.

    HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010

  • CBI has also contested a letter written by a so-called criminologist on the issue as malafide and gave a para-wise rebuttal of charges levelled against the forensic doctors who had conducted the post-mortem as well as DNA examination.

    HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010

  • CBI, which will contest the so-called criminologist's letter as malafide, has also prepared a detailed medical examination of the hymen of Aasiya along with documents and microscopic slides to support its claim that she was never raped or sexually assaulted.

    The Times of India 2010

  • CBI has also contested a letter written by a so-called criminologist on the issue as malafide and gave a para-wise rebuttal of charges levelled against the forensic doctors who had conducted the post-mortem as well as DNA examination.

    HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010

  • CBI has also contested a letter written by a so-called criminologist on the issue as malafide and gave a para-wise rebuttal of charges levelled against the forensic doctors who had conducted the post-mortem as well as DNA examination.

    HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines 2010

  • CBI, which will contest the so-called criminologist's letter as malafide, has also prepared a detailed medical examination of the hymen of Aasiya along with documents and microscopic slides to support its claim that she was never raped or sexually assaulted.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Now, Charles Jaco is going to interview the "criminologist" for Monday's show.

    Gateway Pundit 2009

  • "computer user's license" or an "internet user's license," but it seems such things have returned, with the recent call for just such a "license to compute" by a "criminologist" in Australia

    Techdirt 2009

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