Louk Hulsman

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Louk Hulsman (completely Lodewijk Henri Christian Hulsman ; born March 8, 1923 in Kerkrade , † January 28, 2009 in Dordrecht ) was a Dutch legal scholar and criminologist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Hulsman joined a resistance group . In 1944 he was arrested for false papers and sent to the Amersfoort transit camp . He escaped while being transported to Germany . He returned to the Netherlands, became a soldier and fought with the Allies against Germany in the last weeks of the Second World War .

1945–1948 Hulsman studied law at the University of Leiden . After graduating, he first worked in the Dutch Ministry of War, then in the Ministry of Justice. From 1963 he was professor for criminal law and criminology at the Business School in Rotterdam, part of the later University of Rotterdam ( retired 1986). He is one of the main authors of the influential Council of Europe report on the possibilities of decriminalization (Council of Europe, Report on Decriminalization, Strasbourg 1980). Most recently he taught at the Academia Vitae , a private university in Deventer .

Louk Hulsman, along with Herman Bianchi , Nils Christie and Thomas Mathiesen, is one of the most important representatives of abolitionism .

Works (selection)

  • Louk HC Hulsman / Jacqueline Bernat de Celis (1982): Peines Perdues. Le système pénale en question . Paris.
  • Louk HC Hulsman (1983): Abolire il sistema penale? , in: Dei delitti e delle pene 1, 71–89.
  • Louk HC Hulsman (1986): Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime , in: Contemporary Crises, 10 (3-4), 63-80.
  • Louk HC Hulsman (1991): The Abolitionist Case: Alternative Crime Policies , in: Israel Law Review 25 (2-4), 681-709.

literature

  • Sebastian Scheerer (1983): Why should criminal law have functions? Interview with Louk Hulsman on the Council of Europe's decriminalization report , in: Kriminologisches Journal 1, 61–74.
  • Sebastian Scheerer, obituary: Louk Hulsamen (1923–2009) , in: Kriminologisches Journal , jg. 41, 2009, issue 2, pp. 156–158.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markant EUR-emeritus Hulsman overleden ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hulsman, Louk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulsman, Lodewijk Henri Christian (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch legal scholar and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerkrade
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2009
Place of death Dordrecht