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Reflections on Nils Christie’s ‘Words on words’: remembering the past, thinking the future.

Pelikan, Christa
June 4, 2015

Source: (2013) Restorative Justice: An International Journal. 1(1):55-61.

This comment is written from the perspective of an Austrian researcher working at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology in Vienna; the IRKS has long been influenced by Nils Christie, by his thoughts and visions. Moreover, there has been an ongoing exchange between Norway and Austria despite — or perhaps even because of the differences that exist in the way conflict regulation is practiced in these European countries. (excerpt)

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