penology

English

Alternative forms

pœnology, poenology (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin poena (“penalty, punishment”) +‎ -ology.

Noun

penology (countable and uncountable, plural penologies)

Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.

Related terms

Translations

study of punishment and prevention of crime

Arabic: عِلْم الْعِقَاب (ʕilm al-ʕiqāb)
Bulgarian: пенология f (penologija)
Chinese:
Hokkien: Hêng-hoa̍t-ha̍k

Mandarin: 刑罰學／刑罚学 (xíngfá xué)
Czech: penologie
Dutch: penologie (nl)
French: pénologie (fr) f
German: Pönologie f
Hungarian: büntetésügy, kriminológia (hu)
Indonesian: penologi (id)
Italian: penologia (it) f
Japanese: 行刑学 (ぎょうけいがく, gyōkei-gaku)
Korean: 행형학 (haenghyeonghak)
Lithuanian: penologija
Persian: کیفرشناسی (fa) (keyfaršenâsi)
Russian: пенология (ru) f (penologija)
Serbo-Croatian: пенологија f
Slovak: penológia f
Spanish: penología f
Swedish: penologi
Turkish: penoloji

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