Louk Hulsman

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Portrait of L. Hulsman, 1982

Lodewijk Henri Christian Hulsman, known as Louk Hulsman (8 March 1923 in Kerkrade – 28 January 2009 in Dordrecht) was a Dutch legal scientist and criminologist.

Life

According to Hulsman, his childhood and adolescence were marked by the time he spent in a religious

Second World War. Hulsman later recalled how some members of his resistance movement had stolen weapons and clothing even from other Allied troops during the war.[1]

From 1945 to 1948 Hulsman studied

Ministry of Justice. In 1963 he became a professor for criminal law and criminology at the Netherlands School of Economics, the later Erasmus University Rotterdam (emeritus 1986).[2] He is a main author of the Council of the European Union’s influential report on decriminalization.[3]

He last lectured at the Academia Vitae in Deventer.

Together with Nils Christie and Thomas Mathiesen he is a prominent representative of the prison abolition movement.

Publication & Articles (selection)

  • Louk H.C. Hulsman/Jacqueline Bernat de Celis (1982): Peines Perdues. Le système pénale en question. Paris.
  • Louk H.C. Hulsman (1983): Abolire il sistema penale?, in: Dei delitti e delle pene 1, pg.71-89.
  • Louk H.C. Hulsman (1986): Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime, in: Contemporary Crises, 10 (3-4), pg.63-80.
  • Liber Amicorum Louk Hulsman: Social problems and criminal justice (1987), Juridisch Instituut, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  • Louk H.C. Hulsman (1991): The Abolitionist Case: Alternative Crime Policies, in:
    The Israel Law Review
     25 (2-4), pg.681-709.

Further reading

  • R. S. de Folter, 1986: On the methodological foundation of the abolitionist approach to the criminal justice system: A comparison of the ideas of Hulsman, Mathiesen and Foucault. In: Contemporary Crises 10, P. 39-62
  • René van Swaaningen (1997); Critical Criminology - Visions from Europe - Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Paperback
    ISBN 978-0-7619-5145-2

External links

References

  1. ISBN 2227126019
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  2. ^ EM.Online, 10 August 2009 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Council of the European Union, Report on Decriminalization, Strasbourg (1980)
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