criminologist

Definition

One who practices criminology.

Etymology

From criminology + -ist.

Example Sentences

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