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Originally published in 1974 and recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen's The Politics of Abolition Revisited is a landmark text in critical criminology that examines Scandinavian penal policy and calls for prison abolition. This influential work shaped discourse among criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars and prisoners' rights advocates across Europe and beyond. Forty years after its initial release, the book remains deeply relevant in an era of mass incarceration worldwide, offering essential perspectives on criminal justice reform and abolitionist theory that continue to inform contemporary debates about penal systems and their alternatives.

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The Politics of Abolition Revisited by Thomas Mathiesen provides foundational abolitionist criminology theory originally published in 1974.

This Routledge book won the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the International Criminology Society World Congress in 1978.

The text examines Scandinavian penal policy with calls for prison abolition that influenced European criminology and legal scholarship.

The Politics of Abolition Revisited addresses mass incarceration issues and remains applicable to modern criminal justice reform discussions.

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02 September 2014
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