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PENOLOGY (Lat. poena, punishment)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PENOLOGY (Lat. poena, punishment)

PENOLOGY (
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Lat. poena,
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PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)
punishment) , the

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MODERN

modern name given to

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PENITENTIARY (med. Lat. poenitentiarius, from poenitentia, penance, poena, punishment, a term used both as adjective and substantive, referring either to the means of repentance or that of punishment. In its ecclesiastical use the word is used as the equi

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SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, that concerned with the processes devised and adopted 4r the repression and prevention of

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CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

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