Citations:pœnology

Noun: study of

 * 1871, Francis Lieber, in The Living Age, Littell & Gay; Volume CX, №. 1421, page #549:
 * Of the comprehensiveness of his head and heart only this, that he took, like his brother William, the deepest interest in the widest‐spread common‐school system, and the loftiest university education ; that modern pœnology elicited his attention, and the trial by jury arrested his observation and reflection.
 * 1891, Arthur MacDonald, in The American Journal of Psychology, E. C. Sanford; Volume III, page #117:
 * The science of pœnology must not rest on the idea of freedom, which is in contradiction with scientific facts ; on the idea of freedom the hardest criminal should go free as he has least control over his acts.
 * 1892, The Review of Reviews; Volume IV, page #470:
 * Among other problems of practical pœnology he decides that prisoners should always be engaged in unproductive labor .
 * 1897, Charles F. Lummis, The Awakening of a Nation, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Harper & Brothers; Volume XCIV, №. DLXII, page #505:
 * But her attitude in pœnology to‐day is very significant of modern Mexico. Mexican prisons, in my observation, have as a rule richly deserved all their inmates, whether native or imported ; and also some of their ill repute as a mode of luxury.