criminology
11criminology — [[t]krɪ̱mɪnɒ̱ləʤi[/t]] N UNCOUNT Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals. Derived words: criminologist [[t]krɪ̱mɪnɒ̱ləʤɪst[/t]] plural N COUNT ...a criminologist at the University of Montreal …
12Criminology & Criminal Justice — Criminology and Criminal Justice   …
13Criminology (song) — Criminology Single by Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah from the album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx …
14criminology, critical — Also termed radical criminology, this perspective emerged in the early 1970s, as an explicitly politicized body of work. Drawing on varieties of Marxism (and in some cases anarchism ), it adopted a conflict perspective and placed emphasis upon… …
15criminology, feminist — A self conscious corrective to mainstream criminology and deviance theories (of various kinds), and one with the triple goals of critique, research, and reformulation of the field of inquiry. It emerged during the 1970s, partly as an outgrowth of …
16criminology, positivist — Distinguishable from the positivism of social and psychological theory in its commitment to the practical application of its theory and research, it claims scientific status for its quantification oriented methodology and is characterized by a… …
17criminology, classical — Originating in eighteenth century philosophy, classicism views both criminality and the administration of criminal justice as premised upon principles of rationality, choice, responsibility, and the deterrent power of punishment. It is usually… …
18criminology, environmental — Traditionally, the study of ‘crime and place’; that is, the spatial patterning of crime and victimization (see victimology ). Environmental criminology is related therefore to the work of the Chicago School on urban ecology, and to such… …
19criminology, realist — Sometimes also termed ‘Left Realism’, realist criminology emerged in the mid 1980s, in the work of Jock Young and others in Britain (see, for example, the special issue of Contemporary Crises, 1988). Its proponents emphasize social causes of… …
20criminology — noun Etymology: Italian criminologia, from Latin crimin , crimen + Italian o + logia logy Date: 1882 the scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon, of criminals, and of penal treatment • criminological adjective • criminologically adverb • …
