[f. L. crīmin- CRIME + -(O)LOGY.] The science of crime; that part of anthropology which treats of crime and criminals.
1890. Athenæum, 6 Sept., 325/2. We share Dr. Topinard’s dislike of the term ‘criminal anthropology,’ and may adopt the term ‘criminology’ till a better can be found.
1891. Sat. Rev., 28 March, 398/1. An examination and refutation of the new Italian ‘criminology.’
So Criminological a., Criminologist.
1857. Sat. Rev., III. 271/2. In the author of Dark Deeds we have a criminologist of a third sort.
1890. Athenæum, 6 Sept., 325/3. The object of the criminologist is, first, to establish the existence and define the characteristics of a physical criminal type or types; second, to investigate the psychical phenomena associated with criminality.
1892. Monist, II. 314. M. G. Tarde, the great criminologist … reviews the penological and criminological literature of recent times.
