CRIMINOLOGY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("criminology" is a kind of...):

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminology"):

penology; poenology (the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation)

Derivation:

criminological (of or relating to or involved in criminology)

criminologist (a specialist in criminology)