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Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: poenology
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: criminology
From Latin poena (“penalty, punishment”) + -ology.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
عِلْم الْعِقَاب
(ʕilm al-ʕiqāb)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Bulgarian:
пенология
(penologija)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Chinese:
Hêng-hoa̍t-ha̍k
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Chinese Mandarin:
刑罰學 /刑罚学
(xíngfá xué)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Czech:
penologie
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Dutch:
penologie
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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French:
pénologie
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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German:
Pönologie
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Hungarian:
büntetésügy
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Hungarian:
kriminológia
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Indonesian:
penologi
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Italian:
penologia
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Japanese:
行刑学
(gyōkei-gaku)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Korean:
행형학
(haenghyeonghak)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Lithuanian:
penologija
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Persian:
کیفرشناسی
(keyfaršenâsi)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Russian:
пенология
(penologija)
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Serbo-Croatian:
пенологија
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Slovak:
penológia
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Spanish:
penología
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Swahili:
penolojia
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Swedish:
penologi
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
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Turkish:
penoloji
— study of punishment and prevention of crime
