Louk Hulsman e o abolicionismo penal

Abstract

The abolitionist thought redeminishes the criticism of the penal practices from the problematization of the existence of the reality of crime s ontology and of the universality of laws and punishments. In spite of the diversity of the lines of thoughts it interests itself in repairing the victims and to understand the offensors involved in problematic situations. It highlights that each conflictual situation that comes across in a person s life happens in a singular manner and that, thereafter, a problematic event will never be the same as another. Louk Hulsman, from his libertarian perspective proposes the direct conciliation between individuals involved in problematic situations. He understands penal abolitionism as a practice held in the present by refusing the language of the criminal justice system, and the resolution of problematic situations beyond its reach. The wish to affirm the abolitionism, took him travelling around the planet, establishing connections and promoting new ways of thinking from the events he experienced. The dissertation Louk Hulsman and penal abolitionism , intends to show the construction of Louk Hulsman s abolitionism thought and its repercussions, by including Brazil and Argentina, by means of the analysis of the papers produced by the abolitionist and interviews with intellectuals who were close to him. It is interested in tracing the battle waged by the abolitionist thinkers against a system of justice that is selective and reproduces violence, and to show captures and attempts of immobilization of the abolitionist thought in the actuality by incorporating its suggestions on alternative programs of justice