Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in penology; one who makes a study of penology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in, or a student of, penology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
student of, orexpert inpenology
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management
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Examples
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Dan MacDougald, a penologist back in the 1960's, reported a lot of success in reforming hardened criminals by breaking down their walls and making them realize that they weren't getting anywhere close to their goals with the behaviors they were using.
Sex on a Stick Steven Barnes 2009
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She earned her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, then moved to New York and attended the New York School of Social Work, where she met Leon Thomas Stern, who was to become a well-known penologist.
Elizabeth Stern. 2009
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When his opportunity came, his audience did not consist of judge or jury, doctor, lawyer or penologist.
This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955
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It is important for the penologist to know whether a man has in the course of his life undergone much anxiety and trouble, or whether he has lived through it carelessly.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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They all give the penologist a good deal to do, and those defendants who show defiance and spite are not unjustly counted as the most difficult we have to deal with.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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The penologist has more opportunity than any one else to observe how people dress, to take notes concerning the wearer, and finally to correct his impressions by means of the examination.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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The last is well known to every penologist and explicable in general psychological terms.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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However this may be, the penologist of youth must face some such problem in the organization of the house of detention, boys 'club, farm, reformatory, etc.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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We shall have the author of _Jack Sheppard_ start as a penologist soon.
The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Born in 1883 in Elmira, N.Y., Lawes had worked as a guard at Clinton Prison in the Adirondack wilds of Dannemora, N.Y. His education as a penologist came at the feet of a wise old lifer who schooled him in the power of the club.
NYT > Home Page By RALPH BLUMENTHAL 2011
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