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CRIMINOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does criminology mean?
• CRIMINOLOGY (noun)
The noun CRIMINOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
Familiarity information: CRIMINOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("criminology" is a kind of...):
sociology (the study and classification of human societies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminology"):
penology; poenology (the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation)
Derivation:
criminological (of or relating to or involved in criminology)
criminologist (a specialist in criminology)
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