penologist
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penologists
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In his closing speech to that Boston jury, John Adams quoted these lines from the Italian penologist, Cesare, Marchese di Beccaria:
From Time ● Jun. 6, 2014
Consequently the nation's most publicized penologist was not on hand to celebrate the initial appearance of a monthly magazine called Prison Life Stories, of which he was billed as editor.
From Time Magazine Archive
He separated the state's penal and mental-health facilities, which had previously been lumped under a single administrator, hiring a penologist to head one division, a psychiatrist the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every penologist extols "individualized treatment" to cure each inmate's hangups and return society's misfits to crime-free lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
However this may be, the penologist of youth must face some such problem in the organization of the house of detention, boys' club, farm, reformatory, etc.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
To most penologists, criminologists, judges and even many prosecutors, a far more important concern is whether the sentence fits the offender.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, penologists agree that the entire prison system needs to be overhauled for the benefit of society as well as that of the inmates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some penologists stuff education into prisoners, like meat into a sausage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am further chided for neglecting to mention any "idealistic" or "effective penologists."
From Time Magazine Archive
We cited definitions of political offenses by eminent criminologists, penologists, sociologists, statesmen and historians.
From Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens
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