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Criminology
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Criminology
(1) The study of criminal behavior (forensic psychiatry)
(2) The study of the nature, causes, and means of handling criminal acts, viewed from the perspective of the police

criminology,
the study of crime, the people who commit crimes, and penal codes used to deter crime and punish criminals.


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95 Hardcover HV6024 This legal textbook for UK criminologists concentrates on increased awareness of the law from the viewpoint of both citizens and criminals, and explores how technological innovations have changed the scope of the law since the latter half of the 20th century.
Agozino observes that not only have colonial imperialists utilized the judiciary system to rule the colonized but that criminologists were silent about the imperial criminals so that criminologists indirectly helped the judiciary of the colonizers to rule the colonized.
00 Hardcover HN20 In examining the uneasy relationship between criminologists and policymakers, Knepper (social policy, University of Sheffield, UK) asks questions focusing mainly on social policy as a response to crime rather than critiquing crime policies from social policy perspectives: e.
 
 
 
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