criminology
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- n the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement
- Across the country more universities are adding forensics classes to their criminology programs.
- Few criminology textbooks go to print without elaborate coverage of Lombroso's folly, a reminder to students that nurture, not nature, is responsible for criminal behavior.
- Perhaps most significant of all, Vollmer established a school of criminology on the Berkeley campus in 1916, and he sent his men to it.