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Limits to Pain

Nils Christie
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The article was published on 1981-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 228 citations till now.

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Peacemaking Criminology

Hal Pepinsky
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the work of criminologists that informs how people build trust, safe and social security in the face of violent social differences is presented. And a theory of peacemaking emerging from this beginning is then stated, including a review of the criminological literature that informs the theory.
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Institutionalising restorative justice in the police: key findings from a study of two English police forces

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of an empirical research project, exploring ongoing attempts to mainstream restorative justice within two English police forces and examining how the police understo...
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Organised voluntary action in crime control and community safety: A study of citizen patrol initiatives in Northern England

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated volunteer citizen patrol initiatives and found that participants exhibited a range of motivations for partaking and completed various activities; as responses to perceived threats, broader vulnerability, and for the purposes of information sharing.
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Violence as unresponsiveness: Toward a new conception of crime

TL;DR: In this article, a theory of crime and violence as "unresponsiveness" was inferred by translating concepts of American criminology into Norwegian, where punishment of offenders is a product of a criminality that the punishers share.
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'So, why am I here?' ambiguous practices of protection, treatment and punishment in Danish secure institutions for youth

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how a nexus of punishment, treatment and protection creates unique mechanisms of control in secure institutions for young people, and explore the disciplinary practices unique to the confinement of minors.
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Whose Side Are We On

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Conflicts as property

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.
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The informal economy

TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors suggest that a wide range of services which were once produced in the money economy are increasingly provided informally on a self-service basis. But they do not consider the role of the state in the provision of these services.