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Criminology   Listen
noun
Criminology  n.  
1.
A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
2.
The branch of sociology which studies crime and criminals.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Criminology" Quotes from Famous Books



... influence, mysterious paragraphs in the papers, and the disappearance of the name of Hatherly Bell from the rank of great medical jurists. Nobody seemed to know anything about it, but Bell was ignored by all except a few old friends, and henceforth he devoted his attention to criminology and the evolution of crime. It was Bell's boast that he could take a dozen men at haphazard and give you their vices and virtures point-blank. He had a marvellous ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... said Holmes as we stood waiting for the arrival of the express from town. "I shall soon be in the position of being able to put into a single connected narrative one of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times. Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own. Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man. But ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle
... much enthusiasm for details. Criminology was one of my hobbies, and in several instances I had traced cases of alleged haunting and other supposedly supernatural happenings to a criminal source; but the ordinary sordid murder did not ...
— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer
... advent of fiercest winter; a remark, forcedly jocular, from the chief, that murderers might be considerate enough to pick better weather for the practice of their profession—and that was all. Thus far they knew nothing about the case, and they were both too well versed in criminology to attempt a discussion of something with which they ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... case of the kind; exceptions have been made before, and aliens 'called,' as we express it. Steele's hobby of criminology brought him to London, and his earnestness and ability in that line procured for him the privilege he sought. As member of the incorporated society that passes upon the qualifications of candidates it was my pleasure to sit in judgment on ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham


Words linked to "Criminology" :   criminological, penology, poenology, criminologist


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