Relating to the study of crime and criminal behavior; pertaining to criminology.
From 'criminology' (Latin 'crimen' + Greek 'logos' meaning study or discourse) plus the adjectival suffix '-ic.' This creates the standard adjective form of the scientific discipline.
While 'criminological' is the more common adjective form, 'criminologic' survives in older texts and certain specialized contexts—it's a linguistic survivor from an earlier era of academic writing, when '-ic' was used more frequently than '-ical.'
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