Penology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The study, theory, and practice of prison management and criminal rehabilitation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The science or art of punishment.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The study of punishment for crime, both in its deterrent and in its reformatory aspect; the study of the management of prisons.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    criminology   
    Variant
    pœnology   
    Rhyme
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