penological

Examples

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• The early decades of the American republic coincided with a period of significant penological reform in the common-law world, directed toward abolishing methods of punishment that had come to be considered too vicious for a civilized society.

  Academic text (2004)

• The Court's independent judgment has consistently rested on whether the punishment promotes the penological purposes of retribution and deterrence.

  Academic text (2017)

• The application of penological purposes is more straightforward with respect to the underinclusiveness problem.

  Academic text (2017)

• This highlights the poor fit between clinical definitions designed by and for medical practitioners and the penological aims of the death penalty.

  Academic text (2017)

• The concentration of inmates who present management problems in one secure prison is not necessarily an unsound penological concept.

  Academic text (1997)

• The present article contributes to the topic of prison provisioning and its problems and possible solutions, thus helping to fill the lacunae in penological research.

  Academic text (2017)

• The Court has reiterated this commitment to ensuring a punishment enforces only valid penological goals in virtually every Eighth Amendment case brought before it.

  Academic text (2017)

• Because there is no penological justification for denying Kosilek the treatment prescribed for him, he is now being subject to the "unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

  Blog text (30)

• In describing Atkins, Moore explained that executing the intellectually disabled "serves no penological purpose; runs up against a national consensus against the practice; and creates a 'risk that the death penalty will be imposed in spite of factors which may call for a less severe penalty.'" 191

  Academic text (2017)

• The study of penological methods aims to improve the management of rehabilitation programs for inmates.

Synonyms

C

correctional

vspenological

• Formal

60 5.8

Relating to punishment or help for people who commit crimes in places like prisons

emphasizes management and study aspects rather than direct rehabilitation work

P

penitentiary

vspenological

• US

1 8.2

About the punishment or reform of people in prison

focuses on study and management of prisons and punishment practice

C

carceral

vspenological

• Formal

9.7

Relating to prisons and the system that keeps people locked up

is narrower, focusing on practical management and punishment rather than general prison matters

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology