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criminological

criminological

1 8.0
About the study of crime and the people who commit it
  • adjective
  • /ˌkrɪmɪnəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
  • Specialized
: criminológico
  • The author presents a counseling system that enables one to employ criminological treatment approaches with greater cognitive clarification.
  • criminological treatment
  • criminological theory
  • criminological approach

Examples

  • The conference focused on new criminological methods to analyze and predict crime trends.

  • The failure to make this correct analytic distinction accounts for the failure of much criminological treatment.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Educators can be quickly introduced to the principles and procedures, which are based upon criminological facts rather than model medical or moral assumptions.

    Academic text (2003)
  • What distinguishes these criminological treatment approaches is their primary and often exclusive emphasis on behavioral analysis, classification, and treatment.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The assumption that the cause of compulsive violence resides ultimately in childhood trauma has become canonical in criminological and in popular accounts.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Beyond his interest in researching patterns in substance use, his work focuses on the organization and dynamics of illicit markets, and on examining the impact of social networks on various outcomes of criminological interest.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The theories of delinquency that have examined variations in youths' participation in substance use have largely originated in two criminological traditions: social bonding and social learning theories.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The criminological study revealed significant factors contributing to criminal behavior.

  • Her research in criminological theories has shed light on patterns of deviance in society.

How Academic

theoretical
111 6.3
criminological
  • Specialized
1 8.0
academic
400 4.2
applied
36 4.0
practical
465 2.6

Surface Forms

criminological positive
criminologically positive

Morphology

criminological = criminology (semi-transparent) = crime + ology + ical

The adjective is a regular derivation from the noun 'criminology' with the standard scholarly suffix '-ical'.

Etymology

The word criminological comes from crime and the ending -logy, where -logy appears in familiar words like biology and psychology and means 'study of'. So, criminological means 'relating to the study of crime'.