Causing, producing, or likely to produce crime in a society or person.
From Latin crimen (crime) + Greek -genic (producing/generating), coined in criminology to describe social or environmental factors that generate criminal behavior.
Criminologists debate what's actually crimogenic—poverty, inequality, lack of education, or something else—and understanding this helps design better crime prevention policies.
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