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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).

penology
the science of prison management


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Each section houses the works of many noted criminal justice and social work scholars and penologists, including Joan Petersilia, Karen Knox and Jeffrey Jenson.
Social work in juvenile and criminal justice settings, third edition by Shaw, Lindsey / Corrections Compendium
But, when Russian penologists concerned themselves with library collections and reading, they addressed, sometimes explicitly and almost always exclusively, the general criminal population.
"Romanov's University": libraries, books, and learning in Imperial ... by Ingersoll, Jared / Indiana Slavic Studies
Similarly, James Jacobs challenges liberal penologists to demonstrate that current prison policy is excessive by sorting a large sample of defendants into two groups--those who should not have been sent to prison and those who rightly deserved a prison term--and then dividing the second group into those who were sentenced excessively and those who were sentenced fairly.
The social and moral cost of mass incarceration in African American ... by Roberts, Dorothy E. / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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