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criminogenic

criminogenic adjective: tending to produce crime or criminals.

Adjective

criminogenic (comparative more criminogenic, superlative most criminogenic)

  1. Tending to produce crime or criminals.
    • Bearing in mind the example of some European and American cities (e.g. Amsterdam, San Francisco) where visible street level activity linked to prostitution, drug use, and panhandling does not necessarily translate into high rates of violence, public disorder may not be so "criminogenic" after all...1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105...

Forms of criminogenic

comparativemore criminogenic
superlativemost criminogenic

Origin of criminogenic

From criminal + -genic.

Words formed from criminogenic

Questions about criminogenic

What does criminogenic mean?
Criminogenic means tending to produce crime or criminals.
What part of speech is criminogenic?
Criminogenic is an adjective.

Words near criminogenic in the dictionary

  1. criminiggers
  2. criminis
  3. criminocracy
  4. criminogenesis
  5. criminogenetic
  6. criminogenic
  7. criminogenically
  8. criminological
  9. criminologically
  10. criminologies
  11. criminologist

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