Synonyms for "penology" (29 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (6)

castigationchasteningchastisementcondign punishmentcorrectiondeserts

Strong matches (9)

disciplinary measuresdisciplineferuleinflictionjudgmentjudicial punishmentnemesispainpains

Related words (14)

pains and punishmentspaypaymentpenal retributionpenaltypunishmentpunitionretributionretributive justicescourgewell-deserved punishmentwhat forwhat-for

Noun(1 words)

poenology

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

1 entries

criminology

Related terms

4 entries

penologicpenologicalpenologicallypenologist

derived from

1 entries

logy

is a

1 entries

criminology

related to

5 entries

crimepreventionprocessespunishmentstudy

Translations

22 translations across 21 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries

• عِلْم الْعِقَاب noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Bulgarian

1 entries

• пенология noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Chinese

1 entries

• Hêng-hoa̍t-ha̍k noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

• 刑罰學 /刑罚学 noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Czech

1 entries

• penologie noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Dutch

1 entries

• penologie noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

French

1 entries

• pénologie noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

German

1 entries

• Pönologie noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Hungarian

2 entries

• büntetésügy noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)
• kriminológia noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Indonesian

1 entries

• penologi noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Italian

1 entries

• penologia noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Japanese

1 entries

• 行刑学 noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Korean

1 entries

• 행형학 noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Lithuanian

1 entries

• penologija noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Persian

1 entries

• کیفرشناسی noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Russian

1 entries

• пенология noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

• пенологија noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Slovak

1 entries

• penológia noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Spanish

1 entries

• penología noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Swedish

1 entries

• penologi noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

Turkish

1 entries

• penoloji noun (study of punishment and prevention of crime)

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