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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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Intellectual Scepticism and Political Commitment: The Case of Radical Criminology

Stanley Cohen
TL;DR: Willem Bonger was an important, even legendary figure in Western criminology, and fifty years after his death we should all be aware of this heritage as discussed by the authors.
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The ideas of engagement and empowerment

TL;DR: From the earliest days of the restorative justice movement, advocates have criticised conventional criminal justice, especially as practised in Western democracies, for its failure to engage and empower those most directly affected by crime as mentioned in this paper.
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Discourse and identity: a study of women in prison in Ireland.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical ethnography of women's experiences of imprisonment in Ireland in both a historical and contemporary context is presented, which is informed by feminist epistemology, discourse analysis, and semiotics.
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Comparative Penology in Perspective

TL;DR: The authors show that crime rates may affect prison rates through their affective resonance rather than their quantum, and that penal policies take a different meaning depending on what they are compared to. But they do not directly vary in proportion to external factors such as crime rates.
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‘Just’ punishment? Offenders’ views on the meaning and severity of punishment:

TL;DR: In this paper, the subjective experiences of punishment are investigated and two primary conceptualizations of punishment were identified: punishment as deprivation of liberty and punishment as hard treatment, which has implications for the concept of retributive proportionality, as well as the function of punishment more generally.
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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.