penology
noun
the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
penological
-
a word derived from
penology.
Example Sentences
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“This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose,” the suit said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
Palmer wrote that the death penalty “no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
“To impose a mandatory minimum on something like that I think does not serve any legitimate penological purpose whatsoever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2017
He said there were three fundamental defects: “serious unreliability, arbitrariness in application and unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty’s penological purpose.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2015
This is in itself a clear evidence of the demand that exists for penological reform.
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll
