criminology

English

Etymology

From criminal +‎ -logy.

Noun

criminology (countable and uncountable, plural criminologies)

1. The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour.
   • 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283:

     "So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places."

Derived terms

• biocriminology
• criminological
• neurocriminology

Related terms

• criminological
• criminologist

Translations

the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour

• Albanian: kriminologjia (sq)
• Arabic: علم الجريمَة m (ʕilm al-jarimiyya)
• Armenian: քրեաբանություն (hy) (kʻreabanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: kriminologiya
• Basque: kriminologia
• Belarusian: крыміналогія f (kryminalóhija)
• Bulgarian: криминология (bg) f (kriminologija)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: criminologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犯罪學 / 犯罪学 (zh) (fànzuìxué)

• Czech: kriminologie (cs) f
• Danish: kriminologi (da) c
• Dutch: criminologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kriminologio
• Estonian: kriminoloogia
• Finnish: rikosoppi, kriminologia (fi)
• French: criminologie (fr) f
• Galician: criminoloxía f
• Georgian: კრიმინოლოგია (ḳriminologia)
• German: Kriminologie (de) f
• Greek: εγκληματολογία (el) f (egklimatología)
• Hebrew: קרימינולוגיה (he) f (qriminologia)
• Hindi: अपराध शास्त्र (aprādh śāstra)
• Hungarian: kriminológia (hu)
• Icelandic: afbrotafræði f
• Indonesian: kriminologi (id)
• Italian: criminologia (it) f
• Japanese: 犯罪学 (ja) (はんざいがく, hanzaigaku)
• Kazakh: криминология (kriminologiä)
• Khmer: ឧក្រិដ្ឋវិទ្យា (okrətʰa’ vityie)
• Korean: 범죄학(犯罪學) (ko) (beomjoehak)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: kriminoloģija f
• Lithuanian: kriminologija f
• Macedonian: криминологија f (kriminologija)
• Malay: kaji jenayah, kriminologi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kriminologi m

  Nynorsk: kriminologi m

• Persian: جرم‌شناسی (jarem-šenâsi)
• Polish: kryminologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: criminologia (pt) f
• Romanian: criminologie (ro) f
• Russian: криминоло́гия (ru) f (kriminológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: криминологија f

  Roman: kriminologija (sh) f

• Slovak: kriminológia f
• Slovene: kriminologija f
• Spanish: criminología (es) f
• Swedish: kriminologi (sv)
• Tagalog: kriminolohiya
• Thai: อาชญาวิทยา (àat-yaa-wít-tá-yaa)
• Turkish: kriminoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: кримінологія (uk) f (kryminolohija)
• Vietnamese: tội phạm học (vi) (罪犯學)
• Welsh: troseddeg f