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a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 97 I have read in some of the Criminalists.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. i. 3 By the general consent of Criminalists, nothing is to be accounted a Cryme or punisht criminally; but what is forbid by the Law.

1831 Edinb. Rev. 54 188 On consulting the text writers and criminalists of different nations, their pages swarm with similar contradictions.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 May 1/2 Straight-laced criminalists in general find fault with the bill because it is not the culminating point of a great system of prison reform.

1902 Westmorland Gaz. 10 Feb. 2/1 It has been a moot question among criminalists for many years to decide whether punishment by law should be considered as an expiation of an offence.

1938 Times 18 May 17/6 The great Italian criminalist Beccaria had protested against the pains and penalties of suicide.

2005 M. A. Font & A. W. Quiroz Cuban Counterpoints 18 As a criminalist, he was responsible for the reform of the criminal code in Spain.

1947 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 38 165 He is frequently called upon to serve as an identification expert or ‘criminalist’ in police investigations involving microanalysis, comparative micrography, micro-chemistry, and allied fields.

1980 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. (Connecticut Weekly section) 19/4 He pointed with pride to the appointment several months ago of..the chief criminalist for the laboratory.

2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Jan. (What's On section) 5/3 And these guys (the criminalists) really get to find out what happened.