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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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Is punishment the appropriate response to gross human rights violations? Is a non-punitive justice system feasible? : Part III - retribution and restoration in critical perspective

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.

Youth incarceration : restorative justice and social work practice

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a paper on social work at the Smith College School of Social Work, which is a M.S. Thesis (M.W. 2014) and 55 pages.
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Security implementation facets: peculiarities of execution of the sentence of imprisonment in respect of convicted minors

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the peculiarities of execution of the sentence of imprisonment in respect of convicted minors, identified specific issues and suggested possible solutions, and pointed out the necessity to make amendments to the norms of The Sentence Execution Code of Latvia.
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Évolution théorique en criminologie : l’histoire d’un cheminement

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the theoretical choices offered by Montreal criminologists over the past 25 years, and describe how from a criminology of acting out, they eventually arrived at a social control.
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Women doing and making time: reclaiming time

TL;DR: In this paper, Azrini Wahidin discusses the role and meaning of time in relation to how female elders in prison come to understand and simultaneously negotiate coercive time use in prison and the passing of time on the outside.
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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.