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Penology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation wordnet

Etymology

From Latin poena (“penalty, punishment”) + -ology.

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