crimescape
crimescape noun: a landscape or particular environment of criminal activity.
Noun
crimescape (plural crimescapes)
- A landscape or particular environment of criminal activity.
- Some of the more innovative paradigms have built on these beginnings to create new research programmes that integrate the specific study of global crimescapes within more generic social theories of the Internet and cyberculture.2010, Barry Sandywell, “On the globalisation of crime: the Internet and new criminality”, in Yvonne Jewkes, Majid Yar, editors, Handbook of Internet Crime, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge...
- The Cutolo siblings' NCO quickly dominated the Neapolitan crimescape, at one time supporting an estimated seven thousand members and their families.2022, Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 68
Forms of crimescape
| plural | crimescapes |
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Origin of crimescape
From crime + -scape.
Questions about crimescape
- What does crimescape mean?
- Crimescape means a landscape or particular environment of criminal activity.
- What part of speech is crimescape?
- Crimescape is a noun.
- What is the plural of crimescape?
- The plural of crimescape is crimescapes.
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