Associations to the word «Penology»

Wiktionary

PENOLOGY, noun. Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.

Dictionary definition

PENOLOGY, noun. The branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates