Criminal phenomenology

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The criminal phenomenology deals descriptively with the manifestations of crime against an individual or social background.

This includes documenting the extent, type and circumstances of criminal offenses as well as compiling and evaluating crime statistics . Criminal phenomenology is a sub-area of criminology alongside criminal aetiology and victimology .

Individual evidence

  1. See Hans-Dieter Schwind : Kriminologie, 18th edition, Heidelberg 2008, p. 7. Schwind also counts penology , forensic psychology and psychiatry, institutional research and crime statistics to the sub-areas.