penology

English

Alternative forms

• pœnology, poenology (archaic)

Etymology

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

Noun

penology (countable and uncountable, plural penologies)

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

Related terms

• penologic
• penological
• penologically
• penologist

 

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