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| - Main article: Penology Criminology (from Latin crīmen,
"accusation"; and Greek -λογία, -logia) is the social science
approach to the study of crime as an individual and social
phenomenon. Criminological research areas include the incidence
and forms of crime as well as its causes and consequences. They
also include social and governmental regulations and reactions
to crime. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in the
behavioral sciences, drawing especially on the research of
sociologists and psychologists, as well as on writings in law.
An important way to analyze data is to look at quantitative
methods in criminology. In 1885, Italian law professor Raffaele
Garofalo coined the term "criminology" (in Italian,
criminologia). The French anthropologist Paul Topinard used it
for the first time in French (criminologie) around the same
time. Schools of thoughtEdit In the mid-18th cent