Nils Christie

Nils Christie ( born February 24, 1928 in Oslo) is a Norwegian criminologist. Until his retirement, he taught as a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo.

Nils Christie is, together with Thomas Mathiesen and Louk Hulsman of the most important representatives of the abolitionist movement. In his books he criticizes punishment, criminal law and penal system.

In 2001 he received the Fritt Ord Award, which is awarded for merits in terms of freedom of speech.

Writings

  • If it were not for the school: heretical, for education reform, Munich: List, 1974
  • Limits of suffering, Bielefeld: AJZ, 1986
  • ( with Kettil Bruuun ): The useful foe: drug policies and their beneficiaries, Bielefeld: AJZ, 1991
  • Kriminalitetskontroll som industrial (German Crime Control as Industry Towards Gulags Western-style research on Criminal Policy ( Volume 10 ), Pfaffenweiler. Centaur 1995, ISBN 3- 89085-978 -X)
  • How much crime does Society, Munich: CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3406527876
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