The word criminology has a Latin root, crimen, which means “judgment,” “accusation,” or “offense.” Criminology is the scientific study of crime and criminals. As two well-known criminologists, Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey (1978: 3), explained, criminology includes “the processes of making ...

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