Criminology can be considered a hybrid of various other sciences.

... Criminology can be considered a hybrid of various other sciences. It has been influenced by numerous disciplines including: - sociology (social influences), psychology (personality, moral development etc), psychiatry (mental illness and crime), biology (genetic influences etc), law (legal aspects) and statistics (the measurement of crime). See Appendix A for a time line of criminal theories. There are many perspectives from which crime can be defined, just as there are many opinions about why people commit crimes. Society often defines crime from a strictly legal point of view, as the commission of any act prohibited by criminal law, or the omission of any action required by it - with a criminal defined as any person who commits a crime. But crime can also be defined by referring to some moral or religious code, or by formulating a definition based upon an intellectual or cultural frame of reference for human behaviour (such as biology,

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