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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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Is punishment the appropriate response to gross human rights violations? Is a non-punitive justice system feasible?
TL;DR: The authors conducted a study of the quantitative and qualitative regional variations in criminal homicide rates across Canada and found that the faith placed in the deterrent effect of the death penalty lacked any scientific or empirical support.
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"Theoretical Problematization of Penal Innovation: The Case of Community Service in Belgium"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors set the premises of a sociology of penal innovation which may both compete with the reformist interpretation of "penal advances" and foster a deeper critical reading of them.
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Redresser les torts : l’abolitionnisme et le contrôle de la criminalité
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that what is needed is a wide variety o social responses rather than a uniform state reaction to the problem of crime, and a reconceptualization of the notions of crime and punishment is offered in the form of the concept of redress.
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The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison.
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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.