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penology

[ US /piˈnɑɫədʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation

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  • Over the course of the 20th century the practice of penology has witnessed a fierce struggle between proponents of punishment and proponents of rehabilitation.
  • As the daughter of Robert Gillis, a career state corrections department employee, she knew the region's prisons were not models of enlightened penology. Reporter: 44 days in captivity in Libya 'insane'
  • With penology and prisons came the idea of rehabilitation, again somewhat inappropriate given the difference in civilian and military perceptions of undesirable character traits.
  • Pietro Giannone (1676–1748) created a profound stir with his anticlerical Historia civile del regno di Napoli (1723); Antonio Genovesi (1713–69) was an outstanding physiocrat; Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), with his Scienza nuova (1725), laid the basis of the modern philosophy of history; while Cesare Beccaria (1738–94) in his Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) founded the modern science of penology. E. Italy and the Papacy
  • Such an epistemological approach to crime and penology is undoubtedly one of the study's major strengths.
  • A great advance has been made in penology by organization and annual conventions. Scientific Colonization—A Suggestion
  • The inmate classification system is crucial principle for modern prison administration as well as the key subjects of research on penology.
  • They were standing alone, amidst the ruins of another great experiment in penology, in Port Arthur in Tasmania. THE SCAR
  • These are key ideas in the dominant ideology of patriarchy which have much wider currency and impact than in penology.
  • Alice Davis Menken stood at the forefront of what her New York Times obituary calls “the evolution of penology from an attitude of sentimentality and punishment to the broader conception of mercy and rehabilitation.” Alice Davis Menken.
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