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Noun(1) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement

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(1) He said Caroline was studying criminology in an attempt to help someone like her killer have a better life.(2) By that time, Catrin was an undergraduate student studying criminology and criminal justice as part of a broader social sciences degree.(3) For the past twenty to thirty years, control theories of crime have been at the center of theoretical development in criminology .(4) With a degree in political science and criminology , he became a probation officer in Florida.(5) His primary interests are criminology , statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling.(6) This is a relatively new science in criminology .(7) The largest independent criminology study ever conducted into CCTV concluded two years ago that it has had little or no effect on crime.(8) In contrast, conflict marxist and radical criminology regarded crime as a function of poverty, reflecting a power imbalance in society.(9) She was 21 and had a degree in criminology and psychology.(10) Next month she will head for Cardiff to study law and criminology .(11) Her particular areas of interest are Indigenous criminal justice and forensic issues in criminology .(12) In January, she began a course of further study for a Master's Degree in social policy and criminology .(13) At the University of Northumbria, applications to study criminology and forensic science have doubled.(14) Both emphasize law enforcement as the central police function, and adopt the rational deterrence model of classical criminology , albeit at different stages of the argument.(15) Well now there's an institute named after her where they take science to criminology .(16) I would definitely recommend this book to students studying legal psychology as well as criminology .