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Non-Medical Public and Private Facilities > Correctional Facilities > Prisons
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Incarceration > Prisons
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Incarceration > Prisons
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Incarceration > Prisons

Preferred term

Prisons  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Penitentiaries
  • Penitentiary

Note

  • specify geographic location if pertinent

Scope note

  • Penal institutions, or places of long-term confinement for prisoners.

In other languages

  • vankilat

    Finnish

  • rangaistuslaitokset
  • rangaistuslaitos
  • rangaistusvankila
  • rangaistusvankilat
  • vankila
  • Fängelser

    Swedish

  • Kriminalvård
  • Kriminalvårdsanstalter

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011330

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