Antedating of "Criminology"

[Fred Shapiro]

criminology (OED 1890)

1872 _Boston Daily Advertiser_ Supplement 1/2 (19th Century U.S.
Newspapers)  The law school affords, besides the purely professional
causes, lectures on constitutional and international law, on political
economy, and on what the French call "criminology," or the science of
penal legislation.

Fred Shapiro


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