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25 Isr. L. Rev. 681 (1991)
The Abolitionist Case: Alternative Crime Policies

handle is hein.journals/israel25 and id is 689 raw text is: ALTERNATIVES TO PUNISHMENT THE ABOLITIONIST CASE: ALTERNATIVE CRIME POLICIES Louk Hulsman* I. Introduction A. Some important themes and concepts in an abolitionist analysis1 Crime We are inclined to consider criminal events as exceptional, events which differ to an important extent from other events which are not defined as criminal. In the conventional view, criminal conduct is considered to be the most important cause of these events. Criminals are - in this view - a special category of people, and the exceptional nature of criminal conduct, and/or the criminal, justify the special nature of the reaction against it. People who are involved in criminal events, however, do not in themselves appear to form a special category. Those who are officially recorded as criminal constitute only a small part of those involved in * Professor Emeritus in Criminal Law and Criminology, Erasmus University, Rotter- dam. 1 For recent literature on the abolitionist perspective in the English language see: (1986) 10 Contemporary Crisis 3-106; H. Bianchi and R. van Swaaningen, ed., Abo- litionism, Towards a Non-repressive Approach to Crime (Amsterdam, Free Univer- sity Press, 1986); J. R. Blad, H. van Mastrigt, and N. Uildriks, eds., The Criminal Justice System as a Social Problem: An Abolitionist Perspective (Rotterdam, Med- edelingen van het Juridisch Instituut van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, nr. 36, 1987); J. R. Blad, H. van Mastrigt, and N. Uldriks, eds., Social Problems and Criminal Justice (Rotterdam, Mededelingen van het Juridisch Instituut van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, nr. 37, 1987) W. de Haan, The Politics of Redress: Crime, Punishment and Penal Abolition (London, Unwin Hyman, 1990).

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