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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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Doing justice without the state: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria model of conflict resolution

TL;DR: In this article, the traditional political and social institutions of Afikpo traditional conflict resolution system have been examined in recent years, and an attempt is made to explain how and why these institutions continue to coexist with non-traditional institutions.

É possível humanizar a vida atrás das grades? Uma etnografia do método de gestão carcerária APAC

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed study of an institutional religious experiment in the field of criminal policy in Brazil: the Associations for the Protection and Assistance of the Condemned -APACs is presented.
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Consent and co-operation in community supervision – Denmark and Norway:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on similarities and differences between Denmark and Norway in relation to legal regulations and practices concerning consent and co-operation and find that in spite of legal differences between the countries, their practices have a lot in common.
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Modernity, Imprisonment, and Social Solidarity

TL;DR: In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a vision of a future age of peace and prosperity, of freedom and justice was proposed as mentioned in this paper. But as we enter late modernity those aspirations do not appear to have been fully realized, as we are confronted daily with multiple injustices, inequalities, segregation and significantly, the increased use of incarceration.
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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.