Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #15 - What is Effective Reintegration? (ACJ15-A001)
Abstract
"Our role as criminologists is not first and foremost to be perceived as useful problem-solvers, but as problem-raisers (…). We confront society with dilemmas, and suggest some tentative solutions. Changing times create new situations and bring us to new crossroads...
“Together with other cultural workers—because these fields are central for all observers of society—but equipped with our special training in scientific method and theory, it is our obligation as well as pleasure to penetrate these problems. Together with other cultural workers, we will probably also have to keep a constant fight going against being absorbed, tamed, and made responsible, and thereby completely socialized into society—as it is.” (Nils Christie, 1971:145).
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