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

MODERN

modern name given to See also:

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

penitentiary See also:

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

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

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime.

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