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What is criminology?

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Criminology is the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see prison ) as compared with forms of treatment or rehabilitation.

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