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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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Ethical Issues in Social Work

TL;DR: In this paper, Browne et al. discuss the effects of racism on women's reproductive health and discuss the importance of women's mental health in their relationships with women's health care.
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The Indispensable Metaphor of War: On Populist Politics and the Contradictions of the State's Monopoly of Force

TL;DR: The use of the war metaphor, especially in the field of ''crime and punishment'' is explained by its usefulness for the 'populist structure' of politics as mentioned in this paper. But the use of war metaphor is not limited to crime and punishment.
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Revisiting Informal Justice: Restorative Justice and Democratic Professionalism

TL;DR: Umbreit as discussed by the authors examines two functioning restorative justice programs to flesh out what democratic professionalism might look like in operation-what tasks professionals perform and what citizen involvement means to the professionals.
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Crime in Contemporary Russia

TL;DR: In the former Soviet Union, a "parallel" theoretical and empirical criminology evolved without party or state approval as discussed by the authors, which accumulated empirical data and advanced a theoretical perspective which saw crime as a social phenomenon influenced by factors such as inequality, intergroup conflicts, strain arising from blocked opportunities, living conditions, and so on.
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Shame, forgiveness, and juvenile justice

TL;DR: The Family Group Conference in Theory and Practice (F G C) has been used in New Zealand since 1989 for dealing with young offenders and their victims as discussed by the authors and has been widely used in the criminal justice system.
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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.