penology

/pee-nol-uh-jee/US // piˈnɒl ə dʒi //UK // (piːˈnɒlədʒɪ) //

监狱学,刑法学,刑法,监狱法

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- : the study of the management of prisons.

There are experts who write on penology, and I read them as well.
This message from my pen is not a work on criminology or penology.
Incipient criminals usually started their infamous careers that way; you could read that in any book on penology.
The science of the phenomena of crime is called criminology, that of punishment is named penology.
The new penology covers the investigation and study of every circumstance surrounding the criminal as such.
As has been stated in a previous chapter, the new penology repudiates all such systems.