Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen’s The Politics of Abolition is a
Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen’s The Politics of Abolition is a
This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing and interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the extent to whic
This is the first English edition of a work that, though written some years ago, has been extensively updated. Silently Silenced examines the largely unseen processes that serve to stifle genuine crit
This book, in which Mathieson (sociology of law, U. of Oslo, Norway) argues the inefficacy of imprisonment, first appeared in English in 1990. He addresses several arguments defending the prison syste