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
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
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
Every penologist extols "individualized treatment" to cure each inmate's hangups and return society's misfits to crime-free lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sent only seventeen women to Bedford Reformatory, where a healthy routine of outdoor work, and a most effective system administered by a scientific penologist does wonders with its inmates.
From What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr
Last year a blue-ribbon panel of civilian penologists visited 23 Army lockups, found most of them dismal, and issued a critical 133-page report.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest of Botany Bay is chiefly a description of the excitement of colonizing a not too fertile coastal strip with a horde whose behavior would have baffled a board of expert penologists.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am further chided for neglecting to mention any "idealistic" or "effective penologists."
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, as early as 1937, and later as vice president of the American Prison Congress, he urged penologists and state legislatures across the country to implement shock probation.
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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