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Limits to Pain
01 Nov 1981-
About: The article was published on 1981-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 228 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the critique of professionalism and their emphasis on community conflict regulation in the context of restorative justice, highlighting their critique of professionalism and their focus on community conflicts.
Abstract: Penal abolitionism is known for its unconventional analysis of crime, the law and punishment. Some critical views of restorative justice emerge when the alternatives to imprisonment advocated by abolitionists are examined. This paper discusses such views, highlighting their critique of professionalism and their emphasis on community conflict regulation.
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...…or the offender; a totality of those close to the victim or the offender; or decisions could be made by the victim and the offender in cooperation’ (Christie, 1982: 55-56) Proceeding from top to bottom, the various actors listed above, all hypothetically able to provide input to our sentencing…...
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...Such professionals will not experience the consequences of their decisions; after work ‘they will drive home to the suburbs, to partners and children and dogs’ (Christie, 1982: 67-68)....
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...Hence the suggestion that crime should ‘become a starting point for a real dialogue, and not for an equally clumsy answer in the form of a spoonful of pain’ (Christie, 1982: 11)....
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...This means that chance is taken away from courtdecisions’ (Christie, 1982: 54)....
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...This is the task of the present paper (Bianchi, 1984, 1986, 1994; Christie, 1977, 1982, 1986a, 1986b, 1986c, 1993, 1996, 2004; Hulsman, 1982, 1986, 1991; Mathiesen, 1974, 1990, 2008; Ruggiero, 2010)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a general picture of the changing trends in the rates of imprisonment over the years and examine the question of over-representation of Israel's Arab minority in prison.
Abstract: Contrary to the majority of studies dealing with prison in Israel that examine the relationships within the prison system, the current article attempts to present a general picture of the changing trends in the rates of imprisonment over the years. Three findings emerge from this analysis. First, after a steady rise, which reached its peak in the late 1980s, came a slow but consistent drop in the total incarceration rate. This drop is due to a significant reduction in the number of Palestinian prisoners from the Occupied Territories held in Israel in the wake of the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993. Second, with reference to Israeli citizens only, without including the Palestinians, there is a clear and steady rise in incarceration rates. Finally, the Arab/Jewish breakdown for Israeli citizens in prison shows that a disproportionate number of prisoners are Arabs, throughout the entire period. The article examines the question of over-representation of Israel's Arab minority in prison, and discusses the...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the Norwegian prison and probation system through a selection of key figures from official prison statistics, and describe the Norwegian prisons as beacons of humanity and decency in a world of everincreasing penal populism.
Abstract: This chapter introduces the Norwegian prison and probation system through a selection of key figures from official prison statistics. The Nordic countries all have in common both that they regularly produce comprehensive and advanced prison statistics and that they make versions of them available for the general public. Nordic prisons are seen as beacons of humanity and decency in a world of ever-increasing penal populism. John Pratt described the Nordic societies as exhibiting a specifically Nordic penal culture, resulting in what he called Scandinavian or Nordic exceptionalism in the penal area; the exceptional qualities, according to Pratt, being consistently low rates of imprisonment and comparatively humane prison conditions. Norwegian prisons themselves are welfare institutions or that they should be described as penal institutions with close ties to the welfare state agencies may depend on their perspective. Nevertheless, prisoners in these institutions are given opportunities, resources and living conditions that are not available to prisoners in most other jurisdictions.
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TL;DR: The late modern Prison and the Question of Values as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of criminal justice, focusing on the question of values in the criminal justice system and its role in criminal justice.
Abstract: (2004). The Late Modern Prison and the Question of Values. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 202-219.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the themes of community of practice, rock culture and identity construction in Me and THE BAND'ITS, a rock band of ex-inmates who decided to take alternative revenge by developing skills and authenticity of their music instead of taking conventional revenge.
Abstract: This article explores the themes of community of practice, rock culture and identity construction in Me and THE BAND’its, a rock band of ex-inmates. Using a narrative inquiry approach, two specific scenarios provide the background for two narratives being presented in the research. The first narrative is rooted in a dramatic life-threatening knife assault in which the lead singer in the band was almost killed. Considering different violent options, Me and THE BAND’its decided to take revenge by not taking conventional revenge. The context of the second narrative is the negotiation between the band and the cultural administration of the community about a performance production. Meeting with a bureaucratic and cumbersome system led to frustration but at the same time strengthened the inner bonds in the band. This resulted in the decision to take “alternative revenge” by developing skills and authenticity of their music instead. Me and THE BAND’its alternative action of doing music instead of taking revenge ...
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TL;DR: In this article, a court procedure that restores the participants' rights to their own conflicts is outlined, where the participants have lost their rights to participate in conflict resolution in the past.
Abstract: CONFLICTS are seen as important elements in society. Highly industrialised societies do not have too much internal conflict, they have too little. We have to organise social systems so that conflicts are both nurtured and made visible and also see to it that professionals do not monopolise the handling of them. Victims of crime have in particular lost their rights to participate. A court procedure that restores the participants' rights to their own conflicts is outlined.
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