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1. Criminology is the study of crime from multiple academic perspectives including sociology, psychology, biology, and law. It aims to understand the causes of crime and nature of criminal behavior. 2. Over time, criminology has evolved from a focus on philosophy and legal reform to a social science that develops theories of crime causation. Contemporary criminology studies various types of crimes and their prevention. 3. A seminal definition of criminology by Edwin Sutherland described it as the body o

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Ryan Houghton

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