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criminologist

criminologist

14 6.5
A person who studies crime and criminals
  • noun
  • /ˌkrɪməˈnɑlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
: criminólogo
  • The political history of the favelas has been recounted by several Brazilian and foreign sociologists, political scientists, and criminologists.
  • critical criminologists
  • work of criminologists

The people, normal people and professionals, youth workers, psychologists, criminologists, the mad that approach.

Examples

  • I'm Sally Gerber, criminologist with the state prison system.

  • Davis, in turn, called on her good friend Christian Alden, the eminent criminologist, to assist her.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • And only a criminologist would be surprised to learn that the rate of criminal violence in Spain is much lower than in Britain.

  • What our Boston criminologist would call artifactual evidence.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • One alarming fact has been evident to criminologists over the decades.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Statistics, compiled by a group of criminologists from several American universities, show that crimes of violence have almost doubled in number in the past five years.

  • Indeed, murderers generally fall into a group some criminologists have called "violent predators," sharply differentiating them not only from the overall population but from other criminals as well.

    Academic text (2007)
  • To see this, consider the 1985 work of criminologist Elliot Currie, Confronting Crime, whose cover exclaimed, "Why there is so much crime in America and what can we do about it?"

    Academic text (2014)
  • Criminologists have worked on the problem of combating poaching, from policy design to illegal trade prevention (Lemieux 2014).

    Academic text (2016)
  • The criminologist explained how socioeconomic factors contribute to crime rates in urban areas.

How Expert

expert
∞ 3.2
criminologist
  • Specialized
14 6.5
researcher
635 2.7
student
∞ 1.0
layperson
10 4.9

Surface Forms

criminologist singular

Morphology

criminologist = criminology (semi-transparent) = crimin + ology + ist

The word is regularly formed from the field term 'criminology' plus '-ist', but the Latin-based stem 'crimin-' is not fully transparent to many learners.

Etymology

Criminologist begins with crime, from Latin crimen 'crime', and ends with -logy 'study' and -ist 'person who', so a criminologist is a person who studies crime.