How to Use criminology in a Sentence

criminology

noun
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  • In 1884, the science of criminology had not yet been invented.
    — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • But look at the evidence, Alain Bauer, a professor of criminology, told The Times.
    — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 26 Apr. 2024
  • One wants to teach, and the other wants to study criminology.
    — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • At Fresno State, the same was true in some math, chemistry, criminology and music courses.
    — Larry Gordon Edsource, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The increase was due to a number of factors, criminology experts told CNN.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 1 Jan. 2021
  • There aren’t many startup founders with a degree in criminology.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Cole Lalli is a sophomore from Coventry who plays pitcher on the baseball team and majors in criminology.
    — courant.com, 4 June 2021
  • Robinson said his desire for a future in criminology sealed his choice.
    — Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Michael Kempa, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, said there are two faces of the protest.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2022
  • As a basketball scholar and criminology student, Truth is busy both on and off the internet.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But the image of Moore as a reasonable scholar of criminology is far from accurate.
    — Jessica Pishko, Slate Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Both men received degrees in August – Cothran in criminology and Cothren in recreation, parks, and tourism management.
    — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The Madison LaFollette graduate would have been a junior and was on track to graduate in the spring of 2024 as a psychology major with a minor in criminology.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Yet for all football did for Alston — including help him gain a degree in criminology — parts of his life at West Virginia were difficult.
    — Ben Strauss, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
  • Kohberger enrolled at the school as a Ph.D. student in criminology and also worked as a teaching assistant there.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Another group of more than 20 forensic, criminology, and data researchers hope to narrow the margins to a single culprit.
    — National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Jackson plans to earn a master’s degree in criminology at Oxford.
    — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
  • Angie wants to become a lawyer, and plans to major in criminology as an undergraduate, before law school.
    — Mohammed Damtew, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
  • Craig Pallardy received a bachelor’s of arts in criminology and law studies.
    — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 29 June 2018
  • Sloman, who had a master’s degree in deviance and criminology from the University of Wisconsin, had begun his time on the tour reporting for Rolling Stone.
    — Robert Greenfield, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Gun advocacy groups and criminology experts have pointed to the uncertainty of the pandemic as a key driver for firearm sales.
    — Priya Krishnakumar, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Virtually no one in criminology disputes the age-crime curve.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • One of the great questions in criminology is why European societies have become less murderous through time.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Taylor, the criminology professor, was once a police officer in Portland, Oregon, where sometimes violent protests have raged in a small section of the city in recent weeks.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The Washington State University criminology student is being charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary.
    — Solcyre Burga, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Arthur Conan Doyle transcribed criminology theories in his, and then gave Sherlock Holmes his own commonplace book, filled with intel on up-and-coming forgers.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • There was his associate’s degree in criminology, his police badge and a picture of him posing with his wife in front of a little red Mustang at their three-bedroom house, just before things began to unravel.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Kohberger, at the time, was a criminology graduate student at WSU.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Kohberger had been at the university since August, studying to get his Ph.D. in criminology.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • As a result, most research on wildlife crime up until this point has been conducted not from the vantage point of criminology, but of conservation biology.
    — Lyndsie Bourgon, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017

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