Welcome to the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
37th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
26-29th August 2009
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.
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 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.