Nils Christie

Nils Christie in October 2007 at the Third Annual Death Penalty Symposium at Utah Valley State College

Nils Christie (born February 24, 1928 in Oslo , † May 27, 2015 in Oslo) was a Norwegian criminologist . Together with Thomas Mathiesen and Louk Hulsman , he was one of the most important representatives of abolitionism . In his books he criticized punishment , criminal law and the penal system .

Life

After the war Christie worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper Verdens Gang , which originated in the Norwegian resistance movement Hjemmefronten . He then studied sociology at the University of Oslo and earned a master's degree in sociology in 1953 with a study of guards in concentration camps . In 1960 he received his doctorate in Oslo with a thesis on juvenile criminals in Norway. In 1966 he received the first professorship in criminology at a Norwegian university at the law faculty of the University of Oslo.

In 2001, he received the Fritt Ord Prize , which is awarded for services to freedom of speech .

Fonts in German translation

If the school didn't exist. Heretical about school reform. List, Munich 1974.
The hidden message of neo-classicism . In: Kriminologisches Journal , Vol. 15 (1983), Issue 1, pp. 14-33.
Limits of suffering. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 3-921680-62-X .
(with Kettil Bruun): The useful enemy. The drug policy and its beneficiaries. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1991, ISBN 3-921680-82-4 .
Crime Control as an Industry. On the way to Gulags of the western kind. Centaurus Verlagsgesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1995, ISBN 3-89085-978-X .
How much crime does society need? C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3406527876 .

Web links

Commons : Nils Christie - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Nils Christie in the catalog of the German National Library
Nils Christie on Youtube

Individual evidence

↑ Nils Christie - utdypning (Norwegian)
↑ Gentle but determined: Nils Christie (February 24, 1928 - May 27, 2015) , obituary at Criminologia , blog of the Institute for Criminological Social Research
↑ On the death of Nils Christie , Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo , German version, accessed on October 25, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Christie, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oslo
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 2015
Place of death	Oslo

[1] Nils Christie - utdypning (Norwegian)

[2] Gentle but determined: Nils Christie (February 24, 1928 - May 27, 2015) , obituary at Criminologia , blog of the Institute for Criminological Social Research

[3] On the death of Nils Christie , Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo , German version, accessed on October 25, 2017.