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Also Known As	penal science

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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

Prospero Farinacci

Italian jurist