criminologist

From criminology +‎ -ist.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪ.mɪ.nɒ.lə.dʒɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪ.mə.nɑ.lə.dʒɪst/

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• Hyphenation: crim‧i‧nol‧o‧gist

criminologist (plural criminologists)

1. One who practices criminology.
   • 2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Not according to professor James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass murder for the past three decades.

   • 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283:

     When he finished his stint in Brooklyn, Weisburd decided to team up with Larry Sherman, another young criminologist.

   • 2023 September 26, Abby Roch, “My house was broken into. Now I have developed a fear of thieves called scelerophobia.”, in Business Insider‎^[2]:

     Derived from the Latin words "scelero" — which means crime or wickedness — and "phobos" meaning fear — scelerophobia is coined by both criminologists and psychologists as the fear of burglars, according to Ayla Faisal, a clinical psychologist and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Clinical Psychology at the University of Karachi.

• “criminologist”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “criminologist”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “criminologist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “criminologist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “criminologist, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Borrowed from French criminologiste.

• IPA^(key): /kri.mi.no.loˈd͡ʒist/

criminologist m (plural criminologiști, feminine equivalent criminologistă)

1. criminologist

   Synonym: criminolog

• crimă
• crimino-
• criminologic
• criminologie

• “criminologist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026