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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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Punishing from a Sense of Innocence: An Essay on Guilt, Innocence, and Punishment in America

TL;DR: The authors argue that the sense of collective innocence, once reestablished, has functioned as a firm ideological foundation for hyper-punitive criminal justice policies, since neither it nor the criminal justice machinery that operates on its behalf has to trouble itself with guilty second-guessing.
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Mediation and Reconciliation Models in Italian Legal Experience

TL;DR: In the Italian legal system, two reconciliatory models have recently been introduced to the field of juvenile justice as discussed by the authors, which are based on diversion from trial and are called Discharge for petty offenses and Suspension of trial and probation.
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Older people and carceral institutions in the UK: a Foucauldian excursion

TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of a Foucauldian paradigm for investigating how penal discourses and actual prisoners experiences exemplify issues of power, knowledge and surveillance in institutional settings.
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Crime, Harm and Justice: The Utopia of Harm and Realising Justice in a ‘Good Society’

TL;DR: This article explored the role of criminal justice systems in producing a particular and limited notion of justice, derived from the standpoint of white, socially and economically powerful males living in the western liberal democracies of the Global North, which, in practice, serve to embody and legitimise injustice.
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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.