Thomas Mathiesen

Thomas Mathiesen (born October 5, 1933 ) is a Norwegian legal sociologist .

Mathiesen studied sociology at the University of Wisconsin until 1955 ( BA ) and in 1958 earned his MA (major: sociology, minor: psychology and social anthropology ) at the University of Oslo . In 1965 he received his doctorate there . Since 1972 he has been Professor of Legal Sociology at the University of Oslo ( retired 2004).

He was visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara (1967) and in Berkeley (1975), at the University of Tromsø (1980), at the University of Warsaw (1988) and at the University of Bremen (1988).

Together with Nils Christie and Louk Hulsman, Thomas Mathiesen is one of the most important representatives of abolitionism . His main work "The politics of abolition" (Oslo 1974) has since been published in an expanded new edition ("The politics of abolition revisited", London 2014).

Mathiesen publishes in Norwegian and English, his works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, German, Italian and Spanish and have also been published in China.

German-language fonts (selection)

• Get over the walls! The Scandinavian prisoner movement as a model of political fringe group work. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1979, ISBN 3-472-58044-5 .
• The silent discipline. Contributions against political control. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1985, ISBN 3-921680-36-0 .
• Power and counter-power. Effective Resistance Considerations. AG-SPAK publications, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-923126-35-2 .
• The law in society. An introduction to the sociology of law . Votum-Verlag, Münster 1988; ISBN 3-930405-27-X .
• Prison logic. About old and new attempts at justification. AJZ-Verlag, Bielefeld 1989, ISBN 3-921680-77-8 .

literature

Knut Papendorf and Karl F. Schumann (eds.): No sharp sword, because it fights for freedom. A commemorative publication for Thomas Mathiesen . AJZ, Bielefeld 1993; ISBN 3-86039-007-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Mathiesen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Norwegian / English information about Thomas Mathiesen