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Limits to Pain
01 Nov 1981-
About: The article was published on 1981-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 228 citations till now.
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28 Dec 2004
TL;DR: The sociological research becomes an important source of information providing knowledge for the social-policy advice, which should terminate the ignorance of social dimensions in crime prevention as mentioned in this paper and demonstrate the development of sociological thought in criminology from traditional to modern argumentation.
Abstract: The sociological research becomes an important source of information providing knowledge for the social-policy advice, which should terminate the ignorance of social dimensions in crime prevention. This essay, therefore, attempts to examine, what sociological perspectives in criminology offer for the “new science of crime prevention”. It will demonstrate the development of sociological thought in criminology from traditional to modern argumentation emphasizing the significance of theoretical approaches to the rebirth of “the social” in crime prevention.
01 Jul 2016
TL;DR: The carcere, quale istituzione cara a Goffman, has been defined as "a metamorfosi mentale dell’individuo que, lungi dall’essere positiva e riabilitante, quella auspicata e prevista dai teorici di stampo correzionalista, non lo rendera mai piu davvero libero".
Abstract: Il carcere, quale istituzione totale - definizione cara a Goffman -, ha rappresentato e rappresenta per un numero elevato di uomini, e per periodi piu o meno prolungati delle loro esistenze, l’involucro stretto e spesso violento che avvolge fino a togliere il respiro minuti, ore, giorni, anni. Vite. Il presente la-voro, risultato di una "ricerca opportunistica", per richiamare il concetto elaborato da Mario Cardano, attraverso l’analisi empirica della produzione epistolare di alcune persone detenute presso vari istituti di pena italiani, si propone di fornire un’immagine ravvicinata dell’esistenza reclusa, una prospettiva quanto mai interna di un contesto, come quello penitenziario, che ancora oggi e di difficile raggiungimento per il ricercatore. Emerge, prepotente, una metamorfosi mentale dell’individuo che, lungi dall’essere positiva e riabilitante, quella auspicata e prevista dai teorici di stampo correzionalista, non lo rendera mai piu davvero libero. Lo stigma che si infligge l’individuo stesso, il solco vuoto lasciato dalla vita che si e mancati di vivere, riempito dai caratteri di un’esistenza prigioniera, conferma piuttosto i postulati tipici di una prospettiva costruzionista.
01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that criminal justice activities are an obstacle to a caring society and that the switch of resources towards criminal justice is incompatible with a policy intended to promote the conditions for such a type of society.
Abstract: Contemporary policies in the Western industrialised world show a tendency to cut back on certain formal social services. This tendency is attributed in the introductory paper by Lentjes and Jonker to two considerations: 1) a distaste for what are seen as large impersonal institutions and a desire to promote smaller “mediating” structures; in other words to promote (or restore) a “caring community”, and 2) a desire to diminish the financial burden of the collective sector in society. There is, however, another aspect of contemporary policies which deserves our attention in this context. There is not only a tendency to cut back certain formal services; there is also a tendency to increase other formal services: the police, courts, prison (Rutherford, 1984). My paper will address the question how this switch of resources from certain social services to other services (criminal justice) has to be assessed in the light of the central theme, “how to bring about a policy that creates the conditions for a caring society”. Some conditions promote such a society; others form an obstacle to it. The thesis of this paper is that criminal justice activities are an obstacle to a caring society. Thus the switch of resources towards criminal justice is incompatible with a policy intended to promote the conditions for such a type of society. On the contrary, “reducing criminal justice” should be one of the important strategies in such a policy. I will address three aspects of criminal justice which run counter the ideal of a caring society.
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