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Criminology is a combination of two Latin words: Crimen - crime Logus or logy - science.
Donald Taft Definition.
Webster Definition.
Edwin Sutherland Deinition.
Not a Science base their argument on the standards of quality and validity of what can be classified as science
Why?
I. Stability i.e. it must be firmly established with unlikelihood of ad hoc and unpredictable changes
II. Homogeneity, i.e. the quality of being alike all of the same type.
George Wilber
Max Weber
Herman Manheim
Sutherland view: “at present, not a science but has hope of become a science”
It’s a social Science.
Criminology is based on other social sciences just like medicine is based on anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry etc. Neither medicine nor criminology is purely theoretical.