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Also Known As	penal science

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punishment criminology victimology labeling theory broken windows theory strain theory

Key People

Prospero Farinacci

Italian jurist

Katharine Bement Davis.

Katharine Bement Davis

American penologist

Thomas Mott Osborne

Thomas Mott Osborne

American penologist

Matthew Davenport Hill

British lawyer and penologist

Lewis Edward Lawes

American penologist