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SCHOOL OF LAW
LW 517: CRIMINOLOGY AND
PENOLOGY
Student N!e: Anthony, Anthony Peter
Student Re"#$t%t#&n N&': 2010-04-04001
Dte: 15
TH
January 2014
1.0 Who is a Criminologist?
There is no clear source that defines who a criminologist is, unlike a policeman or taxi
driver, a legal determination that only the criminologist can use to define himself in his
or her field
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. There is however plenty of effort in defining what the field is, and it is from
this that a profile can be had, in identifying who is a criminologist.
Aeminov provides for us partly that a criminologist is a person tackling criminological
problems of crime prevention