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Penology
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The science of prison administration and rehabilitation of criminals.
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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
What does make sense is something penologists have understood for years.
Righting sentences: let's get smart about who should - and shouldn't ... by Mencimer, Stephanie / Washington Monthly
With NIBRS, lawmakers, academicians, sociologists, penologists, and the American public can now better assess the Nation's crime problem by using the extensive data supplied by the law enforcement community.
UCR's blueprint for the future by The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
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