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criminology

noun C1
  1. The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour. (countable, uncountable) · Criminology will help you understand the motivations of lawbreakers.

Plural criminologies

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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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 185 · C1

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