Welcome to the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
'Beyond the Wire': Regulating Division, Conflict and Resistance
40th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
5th - 9th September 2012
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Louk Hulsman, the former the Director of the Rasphuys Institute, Dordrecht and Emeritus Professor in Penal Law and Criminology at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, died in Dordrecht, Netherlands of a heart attack on 28th January 2009.
Louk was one of the ‘founding fathers’ of penal abolitionism in Europe and one of the most active and influential penal critics for the last four decades. Click here to read more about his life and work.