Criminologist is used in the context of academic study or professional work related to the analysis of criminal behavior.

Academic Field

Understanding 'criminologist' entails knowing they look for patterns and causes behind crimes to prevent them.

Crime Analysis

Criminologists are not police officers; they study crime scientifically, often in universities or research institutions.

Not Law Enforcement

 and we're going to build an identikit. I believe this is also a new era for criminal profiling. The work of the criminologist draws on the expert recognition of behavioral patterns that have been observed before to belong to a certain type, to a certain profile.

Your fingerprints reveal...

 not only to the temptation to commit fraud but to convincing themselves that they've done nothing wrong. So why does fraud happen? While individual motivations may differ from case to case, the fraud triangle, a model developed by criminologist Donald Cressey,

How people rationalize...

 and people said things like what are you going to do with them meaning the inmates I thought I do not want to be a criminologist I was not interested in improving prisons I wanted to destroy