criminology

English

Etymology

criminal +‎ -logy

Noun

criminology (countable and uncountable, plural criminologies)

1. The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour.

Derived terms

• biocriminology
• neurocriminology

Related terms

• criminologist

Translations

the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour

• Arabic: علم الجريمَة‎ m (ʿilm al-jarimiyya)
• Catalan: criminologia f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: kriminologie f
• Danish: kriminologi (da) c
• Finnish: rikosoppi, kriminologia (fi)
• French: criminologie (fr) f
• German: Kriminologie (de) f
• Greek: εγκληματολογία (el) f (egklimatología)
• Hebrew: קרימינולוגיה‎ (he) f (qriminologia)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kriminológia
• Italian: criminologia (it) f

• Japanese: 犯罪学 (はんざいがく, hanzaigaku)
• Khmer: ឧក្រិដ្ឋវិទ្យា (okrətʰa’ vityie)
• Korean: 범죄학 (ko) (beomjoehak) (犯罪學 (ko))
• Malay: kaji jenayah, kriminologi
• Polish: kryminologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: criminologia f
• Romanian: criminologie (ro) f
• Russian: криминоло́гия (ru) f (kriminológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: kriminologija (sh) f
• Spanish: criminología (es) f
• Swedish: kriminologi (sv)
• Vietnamese: tội phạm học (罪犯學)
• Welsh: troseddeg f