penology

1. 1.

   the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation

   Synonymspoenology

   Broadercriminology

Other forms of penology

plural

penologies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about penology

What does penology mean?

penology means "the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation".