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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
penal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a penal/criminal code (=relating to the punishment of criminals)
▪ At that time the penal code allowed the death penalty.
penal code
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
code
▪ Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
▪ At the start, parliamentarians were given different versions of the penal code to discuss.
▪ Self-defacement, inciting anti-Soviet attitudes, it's all in the penal code.
▪ But lawyers, investigators and police have only contempt for the penal code, in force since Jan. 1.
▪ But what needs to be changed is the spirit of the penal code.
▪ You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
▪ This law includes amendments to the penal code and the conditional release of approximately 38,000 prisoners.
▪ Euthanasia technically remained a criminal offence subject to a minimum prison sentence of 12 years under Article 293 of the penal code.
colony
▪ You play Ripley, who has to despatch hordes of alien-infested humans from an underground penal colony.
▪ Leper colonies are only one entry in this classification of special communities; certain penal colonies would be another.
▪ He was appointed superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island in 1840.
crisis
▪ Woolf correctly identifies some of the components of an adequate theory of the penal crisis.
▪ Riots and Disorder To the general public, the most noticeable symptom of the penal crisis is of course the prison riot.
▪ We shall be suggesting later that this insight is of crucial importance in understanding the penal crisis.
▪ These findings are significant in relation to the wider penal crisis in at least two respects.
institution
▪ Convicted criminals in penal institutions are disqualified as are persons convicted of certain corrupt or illegal practices at elections.
▪ Lacking white skills, disproportionately large numbers are incarcerated in penal institutions, alcohol rehabilitation centres and psychiatric hospitals.
law
▪ The signing of a penal law co-operation treaty was reported to be imminent.
▪ To complicate matters further, substantial changes in criminal and penal law were made by the Criminal Justice Act, 1967.
▪ He opposed the abolition of the penal laws, and accepted the Revolution of 1688.
▪ Criminal law on the other hand deals with matters involving the state and the enforcement of penal laws.
▪ The penal laws in force at the time, however, made mixed marriages difficult, if not impossible.
policy
▪ These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.
▪ The abolitionist stand does provide a warning beacon against which penal policies, such as prison building programmes, might be assessed.
▪ I hope one of the outcomes of the debate will be to move the focus of penal policy away from custody.
▪ Since their election victory in 1979 the Tories have followed a two-pronged penal policy.
▪ The period saw few radical departures in penal policy.
▪ That would leave the Home Office with policing, penal policy and the criminal law.
▪ The Home Office would retain powers over policing, penal policy, and the criminal law.
▪ Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives.
practice
▪ The overall picture of sentencing and penal practice presents a rather more complicated situation.
▪ The history of penal practice is replete with particular sanctions falling into disuse.
▪ The whole endeavour was set in an international context, the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad.
▪ Firstly, it fails to explain the mechanisms linking an economic imperative with a penal practice.
reform
▪ To pick up on an earlier theme, there are two main traditions in penal reform.
reformer
▪ If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
▪ Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential.
servitude
▪ He was on the Sûreté list and was arrested in November 1930 and sentenced to 12 years penal servitude in September 1931.
▪ Justice Day sentenced them both to 20 years' penal servitude.
system
▪ Any penal system can be vilely abused.
▪ Paragraph 3 of Article 10 states that the essential aim of the penal system is reformation and social rehabilitation.
▪ The purpose of penal systems was clearly to deal with male delinquency and crime.
▪ The Administration proposed an understanding clarifying the relationship between these goals and other traditional goals of the penal system such as punishment.
▪ The penal system is in a state of crisis.
▪ More young black men are now in the penal system than in higher education.
▪ Of course, there is still a considerable task ahead for Government in improving the penal system.
▪ Some researchers believe Wallenberg died in the Gulag penal system as late as the 1980s.
treatment
▪ The biological positivists did not, however, involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments.
▪ But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a penal colony
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Children who never became penal inmates surely deserve equal consideration.
▪ Historical materialism can also be used to explain the history of penal thought sketched in the previous chapter.
▪ If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
▪ It has been very difficult too for women to reach the higher levels of penal policy-making and administration.
▪ The possibility of penal cancellation charges in the public domain is a rumour.
▪ These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.
▪ This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments.
▪ Where deviance has a categorical, unproblematic quality, a penal response is triggered.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penal

Penal \Pe"nal\, a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. p['e]nal. See Pain.] Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:

  1. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.

  2. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.

  3. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. ``Adamantine chains and penal fire.''
    --Milton.

    Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment.

    Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them.

    Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.]

    Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
penal

"pertaining to punishment," mid-15c., from Old French peinal (12c., Modern French pénal) and directly from Medieval Latin penalis, from Latin poenalis "pertaining to punishment," from poena "punishment," from Greek poine "blood-money, fine, penalty, punishment," from PIE *kwoina, from root *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (cognates: Greek time "price, worth, honor, esteem, respect," tinein "to pay a price, punish, take vengeance;" Sanskrit cinoti "observes, notes;" Avestan kaena "punishment, vengeance;" Old Church Slavonic cena "honor, price;" Lithuanian kaina "value, price").

Wiktionary
penal

a. 1 Of or relating to punishment. 2 subject to punishment; punishable. 3 Serving as a place of punishment.

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WordNet
penal

  1. adj. of or relating to punishment; "penal reform"; "penal code"

  2. serving as or designed to impose punishment; "penal servitude"; "a penal colony"

  3. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense" [syn: punishable]

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Wikipedia
Penal

Penal (originally Peñeraal of a Spanish origin) or पीनल is a town in south Trinidad and Tobago. It lies south of San Fernando and Debe, and north of Siparia. It was originally a rice and cocoa producing area but is now a rapidly expanding and developing town. The population is 12,281.

The heart of Penal contains many businesses while the outskirts focus on agricultural development. Penal has a police station, branches of three banks ( Scotiabank, Republic Bank and First Citizens Bank) health facilities, photo studios, fast food restaurants, service stations and clothing stores.

Penal plays a major role in the energy supply to the nation's populace. Petrotrin, the national oil company, has a major sub-unit in Clarke Road and the National Gas Company has gas lines running through Penal that links the gas fields of the South East Coast and the industrial estates. One of the countries three major power generating plants owned by Powergen Ltd is located at Syne Village to the west of Penal.

The area is known for the High Schools located in the Penal-Debe area. It is one of the areas in Trinidad that has the most schools. Debe and Penal is also known for the Doubles, Roti and Aloo-Pies, which are always packed with customers for delicious cuisine.

Penal is administered by the Penal-Debe Regional Corporation.

Penal (disambiguation)

Penal may refer to:

  • Penal colony
  • Penal system, prisons
  • Penal military unit
  • Penal (town), Trinidad and Tobago
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Usage examples of "penal".

It is the account of a term of penal servitude spent by a convict of the educated classes in a Siberian prison, based mainly on autobiographical material.

We were loaded into the elevator, and I saw Pooch come on, cuffed to a grizzled veteran of the penal system, busily picking his nose and scratching at his denim shirt.

Then you have the audacity to tell me the Earthling you have selected is now being held in the Penal Quarters for speaking treason.

Les articles sous le coup desquels elle vous place sont les 354, 355, 356, 357 du code penal, qui disent que quiconque aura enleve ou detourne une fille au-dessous de seize ans subira la peine des travaux forces a temps.

And you souse all that with deftness, that execrable deftness of the fingers which would just as well carve cocoanuts, the flowing, pleasant deftness that begets success, and which ought to be punished with penal servitude, do you hear?

For, without being a fatalist, or a disciple of Baruch de Spinoza, I must confess that I cannot conceive a greater resemblance to our human and earthly state than the penal predicament of the devoted flies.

Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.

Eric Stokes has convincingly shown, utilitarianism combined with the legacies of liberalism and evangelicalism as philosophies of British rule in the East stressed the rational importance of a strong executive armed with various legal and penal codes, a system of doctrines on such matters as frontiers and land rents, and everywhere an irreducible supervisory imperial authority.

Klingon lawyer named Kolos, sent to Rura Penthe, the unspeakably brutal penal colony.

The Texas penal code mandated a punishment of not less than two years in prison for any doctor or layperson performing an abortion.

As Attorney General, Long had managed to find out more than he was authorized to know about the ultrasecret Avionian Project, and some prominent politicians and businessmen had gone to the penal colony called Darkside for their role in the poaching there.

Palpably he was one of his hangerson but for the matter of that it was merely a question of one preying on his nextdoor neighbour all round, in every deep, so to put it, a deeper depth and for the matter of that if the man in the street chanced to be in the dock himself penal servitude with or without the option of a fine would be a very rara avis altogether.

Remember, it was for the first two reasons that riping first spread into the penal system.

The details of the system in regard to the penal and premial counters may be found from pp.

During this reign, the statute of provisors was enacted, rendering it penal to procure any presentations to benefices from the court of Rome, and securing the rights of all patrons and electors, which had been extremely encroached on by the pope.