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CRIMINOLOGY
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I. (noun)
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)
