environmental criminology
The scholarly study of areas where crime occurs and of why offenders are active in those areas. — Also termed geography of crime; ecology of crime.
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criminology
criminology (krim-[schwa]-nol-[schwa]-jee), n. The study of crime and criminal punishment as social phenomena; the study of the causes of crime and the treatment of offenders, comprising (1) criminal biology, which examines causes that may be found in the mental and physical constitution of an offender (such as hereditary tendencies and physical defects), and (2) criminal