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In our Blog we will inform about developments in legal/criminal policy, about new court decisions, recent research and other topics regarding imprisonment
Manifesto for Penal Abolitionism
This Manifesto was published in German for a German audience in November 2019. It goes back to a manifesto publshed by Livio Ferrari and Massimo Pavarini (No Prison Manifesto (http://noprison.eu; in seven languages). We felt, however, that the criminal justice systems...
Myths about Criminal Policy
33 Myths about crimes and people who commit them I. On offences and perpetrator persons 1. To kill someone has always been a crime 2. Prisons have been there forever 3. Thanks to the media, we know that there is a lot of crime 4. The big criminals are monsters 5....