Penology

From LoveToKnow 1911

PENOLOGY (Lat. poena, punishment), the modern name given to penitentiary science, that concerned with the processes devised and adopted for the repression and prevention of crime. (See CRIME; CRIMINOLOGY; PRISON; JUVENILE OFFENDERS; RECJDIVISM, &C.)


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George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd baron Penrhyn >>

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