Glossary C

Criminal law refers to the body of law which regulates those actions which have the potential to harm interests of the state or the federal government.

- Criminal personality profiling : Criminal personality profiling refers to the attempt to identify a person's mental, emotional, and psychological characteristics.

Criminal Personality Profiling refers to the attempt to identify a person's mental, emotional, and psychological characteristics.

Criminal/Noncriminal Investigation is defined as the investigation of criminal and non-criminal matters

Criminalist refers to a forensic scientist who examines physical evidence

Criminalistics is defined as a scientific discipline directed to the recognition, identification, individualization and evaluation of evidence.

Criminality refers to a behavioral predisposition that disproportionately favors criminal activity.

Criminalize to make things/practices illegal.