1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Penology

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; Recidivism, &c.)

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