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Louk Hulsman · 1993
A chapter by Louk Hulsman on penal abolitionism. It argues that the acts grouped together as crimes do not form a category with a reality of its own: they have very different moti…
Howard Zehr · 2006
A brief introduction to restorative justice, written by Howard Zehr. It starts from the question of how a society should respond to harm and what justice requires when a crime occ…
Michel Foucault · 2017
A collection of five lectures that Michel Foucault gave in 1973 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. They trace how truth was established in ancient Greece, in…
Nils Christie · 1992
A lecture by Nils Christie in which he argues that conflicts belong to the people involved and that criminology and the professions of the criminal justice system have been taking…
Nils Christie · 1984
A book by Nils Christie that proposes severely restricting the pain the State inflicts as a means of social control. It argues that, if pain must be caused, it should not have man…