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Penology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Penology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation

2

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

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
criminology
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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