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Penology

The science of prison administration and rehabilitation of criminals.

See: discipline, punishment
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By and large, Nordic penologists have come to understand this: after a brief flurry of interest in the mid-80s in incapacitation as a crime-reduction tool, enthusiasm for such strategies has waned, without having had a great deal of impact on legislation.
Beware of Punishment: On the Utility and Futility of Criminal Law
The progressive proposals discussed by penologists in the first decade of Soviet rule were mostly stillborn, and it was the concentration camps, forced labor, and executions of the Red Terror that provided the models for the Stalinist labor camp.
The Gulag as the crucible of Russia's 21st-century system of punishment
2002: Jiang and Winfree, 2006) have argued that female inmates do not receive the same attention as their male counterparts from criminologists, penologists or policymakers.
Coping strategies and adjustment patterns among female inmates in a Nigerian prison
First appearing as a total institution in the form of Zebulon Brockway's New York Reformatory in 1876 in Elmira--"the first really large prison with a total program for the confinement and transformation of inmates"--it had expired by the 1960s, by which time reformers, penologists, and legislators on the left and right sought to practice rehabilitation and punishment in smaller, more numerous, decentralized, and presumably easier-to-control "facilities" and "correctional institutions" (11).
The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
It is easy to notice that, especially after the foundation of the modern Romanian state, the echoes of the European thinking reverberated in the perspective of penologists in Bucharest and Iasi, being materialized in the legislation of the country, as well as in the foundation of some penal establishments where provisions of law had to be applied.
The affirmation of the renewing current of prison reform in 19th century Romanian thinking
Although penologists for many years have questioned the morality of long prison terms as well as their effectiveness, the principal motivation for the latest surge of sentencing reform has been fiscal.
Right turn: election success gave Republicans the momentum to push key conservative issues in many statehouses
A severe rebuttal came from the Boalt Hall Law School penologists Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, who argued in a 1988 article published by the National Council of Crime and Delinquency that Zedlewski overstated the net benefit of incarceration by inflating the numerator (crimes per offender and social costs per crime) and deflating the denominator (annual cost of confinement).
Prison math: what are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?
It was studied by leading European jurists and penologists during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Goncourt's dream: night terrors in La Fille Elisa
A letter posted on the internet by a California prison security officer reflects a view of prisons that is more common than some progressive penologists would care to admit.
The effect of prison education programs on recidivism
Rehabilitative programs have begun to once again gain credibility among penologists as a way to reduce recidivism, (111) and an increasing number of states have been willing to reward voluntary program participation with sentence reduction.
Changing the sentence without hiding the truth: judicial sentence modification as a promising method of early release
These assets should be developed in executives, justice officers, penologists, probation officers, social workers, forensic scientists, special case officers, and investigators.
Mandates for change management in the ministry of justice under the State Administration Act (No. 5) of 2002
I agree with the Court as to the value and humaneness of liberal use of probation reports as developed by modern penologists, but, in a capital case, against the unanimous recommendation of a jury, where the report would concededly not have been admissible at the trial, and was not subject to examination by the defendant, I am forced to conclude that the high commands of due process were not obeyed.
If it's constitutional, then what's the problem?: The use of judicial override in Alabama death sentencing

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