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Limits to Pain
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The article was published on 1981-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 228 citations till now.read more
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‘Child friendly’ international human rights standards and youth offending team partnerships
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an empirical study of YOT partnerships to explore why young people's social welfare needs are not being met, and argued that such failure stems from the way young people' social welfare problems are framed.
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Containing contradictions: the development of prison drugs policy in England since 1980
TL;DR: In this article, a study of policy networks in the development of prison drugs policy in England during the late 20th century is presented, drawing on concepts, theories and research from a variety of disciplines including criminology, social policy, sociology, political science and public administration.
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Con-texting restorative justice and abolitionism: exploring the potential and limits of restorative justice as an alternative discourse to criminal justice
Brunilda Pali,Christa Pelikan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper revisited the very first issue of Restorative Justice: An International Journal: Nils Christie's "Words on words" and the ten reactions it provoked, and explored the potential and limits of restorative justice as an alternative discourse to the current criminal justice system.
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Prison abolition in the UK: They dare not speak its name?
Mick Ryan,Tony Ward +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discusses the history, achievements, and prospects of the movement for prison or penal abolition in the United Kingdom, and in particular the ideas promoted by RAP (Radical Alternatives to Prison) in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Penal Populism and the Problem of Mass Incarceration: The Promise of Utopian Thinking
TL;DR: In this article, Copson explores the question of what might be done in order to enable us to imagine responses beyond mass incarceration, drawing connections between such calls and David Harvey's spaces of hope, and suggests a possible conceptual means to achieving this end.
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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.