criminologist

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˈkɹɪ.mɪ.nɒ.lə.dʒɪst/
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/ˈkɹɪ.mɪ.nɒ.lə.dʒɪst/ · /ˈkɹɪ.mə.nɑ.lə.dʒɪst/

Definition of criminologist

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who practices criminology.
    “I have the strongest suspicion that the whole incident is a ridiculous mare's nest, bred in the fantastic imagination of an enthusiastic criminologist.”
    “Not according to professor James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass murder for the past three decades.”
    “When he finished his stint in Brooklyn, Weisburd decided to team up with Larry Sherman, another young criminologist.”
    “Derived from the Latin words "scelero" — which means crime or wickedness — and "phobos" meaning fear — scelerophobia is coined by both criminologists and psychologists as the fear of burglars, according to Ayla Faisal, a clinical psychologist and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the University of Karachi.”

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Etymology

From criminology + -ist.

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