Concept information
Preferred term
criminology
Definition
- Criminology is the scientific study of crime that dates from the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. It encompasses all aspects of crime and punishment, including the nature of crime, the characteristics of criminals, the causes of crime, and efforts to control crime and punish offenders, including efforts by the police, courts, and correctional agencies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Criminology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- comparative criminology
- crime
- criminological theory
- deviance
- key organizations (criminology)
- law and justice
- law and society
- law enforcement
- parole
- penology
- race and crime
- recidivism
- research methods and information
- security
- social history of crime
- sociocultural context and popular culture
- sociology of crime
- street crime in America
- victimology
- white-collar and corporate crime
- white-collar crime
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/criminology
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