criminologist

plural criminologists

1. One who practices criminology.

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

   2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283

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   I have the strongest suspicion that the whole incident is a ridiculous mare's nest, bred in the fantastic imagination of an enthusiastic criminologist.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados

   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.

   2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN

   There was a risk that he might slip away, so before releasing him, Agent Burger made sure that Morrison had gone through a rigorous process known as Bertillonage. Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals.

   2021 (originally published 2017, adapted 2021), David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Younger Readers, page 110

   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.

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