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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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SCANDINAVIAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN AN ERA OF PENAL EXCESS Part I : The Nature and Roots of Scandinavian Exceptionalism

TL;DR: The authors examines the roots of penal exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state.
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Schizophrenia and crime : a longitudinal follow-up of 644 schizophrenics in Stockholm

TL;DR: To compare the crime rate of schizophrenia with that of the general population, data from the Central Swedish Police Register on 790 schizophrenic patients discharged from hospitals in Stockholm in 1971 was analysed for the period 1972–86.
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Handbook of Restorative Justice

TL;DR: In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the handbook of restorative justice book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books.
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Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?

TL;DR: The authors argued that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in earlier levels of social solidarity, security and homogeneity, jeopardizing the future of their low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions.
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Rethinking the Sanctioning Function in Juvenile Court: Retributive or Restorative Responses to Youth Crime

TL;DR: This article examined the limitations of sanctioning choices presented by both the individual treatment mission and what some have referred to as a "retributive justice" paradigm and considered the implications of an alternative model, Restorative justice, as a framework for a new approach to sanctioning consistent with a revitalized juvenile justice mandate.
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Legal justice and mental health.

Vilhelm Aubert
- 01 May 1958 -