单词 | criminaloid |
释义 | criminaloidn. Chiefly Sociology. A person with an inclination towards crime; an occasional rather than habitual criminal. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > criminality > criminal person > [noun] > new first offender1808 criminaloid1890 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > one with criminal tendencies criminal1610 criminaloid1890 1890 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 36 442 Lombroso divides occasional criminals into pseudo-criminals and criminaloids. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 Jan. 2/1 The common incarceration of offenders manufactures the criminal out of the juvenile, the criminaloid and the single offender. 1934 E. H. Sutherland Princ. Criminol. ii. 32 These white-collar criminaloids..are by far the most dangerous to society. 1968 Sociol. Q. 9 366 The criminaloid, who is less degenerate than the above biological types. 1998 M. M. Lanier & S. Henry Essent. Criminol. v. 95 The criminaloid, who is of weak nature and easily swayed by others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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