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different personalities producing conflict which is
the aspect of crime.

CRIMINOLOGIST – a person who study criminology.
He is more concerned with the scientific aspects of
crimes in relation to criminal justice. He analyzes
crime and criminal behaviors and attempts to
provide explanations as to who commits crime and
why they do it. He also analyzes a criminal’s
behavior and the methods he or she employs and
develops profiles of criminals and their behavior
using research and studies that examine
psychological behavior, social issues,
environmental factors, education levels and
biological factors.

CRIMINOLOGY – is the body of knowledge regarding
delinquency and crime as a social phenomenon.
This is the general and more traditional meaning of
criminology. However, there are other definition of
criminology suggested by some modernist such as
criminology may refer to the study of crimes and
criminals and the attempt of analyzing scientifically
their causes and control and the treatment of
criminals.

CRIMINOLOID – a term used by Lombroso to
describe occasional criminals who are influenced
primarily by environmental factors; those who
commits crime due to less physical stamina or self-
control. A criminal type qualitatively similar to the
born criminal but differing quantitatively from him
—who had become a criminal more from
precipitating external factors than from
predisposing internal ones.

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