There are experts who write on penology, and I read them as well.
I don't know much about penology, but that's the way I'd do it.
This message from my pen is not a work on criminology or penology.
The interesting possibilities of this Color Theory in penology and in the regulation of domestic affairs, did not escape Leighton.
Are they specimens of “the criminal” we have had pictured to us in so many works on “penology”?
penology has indeed engaged our attention, but criminology has been almost practically ignored by us.
In penology nothing has been added to her philosophy, and we have as yet not nearly carried out her suggestions.
Benninghausen is an admirable example of the application of the allopathic principle to penology.
It is true that penology in the Philippines has gone ahead with great strides.
The thing that is most conspicuous in penology is the new attitude of courts of law, of judges and even of juries.
"study of punishment and crime prevention," 1838, coined apparently by Francis Lieber, corresponding member of the Philadephia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, from pen- as in penitentiary (ultimately from Latin poena "penalty, punishment;" see penal) + -ology "study of." Related: Penologist; penological.