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Penology
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The science of prison administration and rehabilitation of criminals.
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The penologist Michael Tonry has in recent years argued that a series of moral panics caused the precipitous rise in the American prison population.
Moral panic by Cusac, Anne-Marie / The Progressive
the appellant's own expert penologist conceded that [sheriff] Peed's policies met the standards of both the Virginia Board of Corrections and the American Correctional Association.
U.S. Appeals Court: MEDICAL CARE USE OF FORCE by Corrections Caselaw Quarterly
The fifth explores how men's sexist anxieties distorted their accounts of women's behavior, and the sixth how penologists and reformers alike constructed a largely mythic image of the prostitute.
Time, Desire and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses by Binion, Rudolph / Journal of Social History
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