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penology

Branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders. Penological studies have sought to clarify the ethical bases of punishment, along with the motives and purposes of society in inflicting it; differences throughout history and between nations in penal laws and procedures; and the social consequences of the policies in force at a given time. Influential historical works have included Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments (1764), Jeremy Bentham's “Panopticon” scheme (c. 1800), Cesare Lombroso's Crime (1876), and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975).
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The penologist Michael Tonry has in recent years argued that a series of moral panics caused the precipitous rise in the American prison population.
Moral panic by Cusac, Anne-Marie / The Progressive
the appellant's own expert penologist conceded that [sheriff] Peed's policies met the standards of both the Virginia Board of Corrections and the American Correctional Association.
U.S. Appeals Court: MEDICAL CARE USE OF FORCE by Corrections Caselaw Quarterly
The fifth explores how men's sexist anxieties distorted their accounts of women's behavior, and the sixth how penologists and reformers alike constructed a largely mythic image of the prostitute.
Time, Desire and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses by Binion, Rudolph / Journal of Social History
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