Name Louk Hulsman Role Criminologist | ||
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Died January 28, 2009, Dordrecht, Netherlands | ||
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Lodewijk Henri Christian Hulsman, known as Louk Hulsman (8 March 1923 in Kerkrade – 28 January 2009 in Dordrecht) was a Dutch legal scientist and criminologist.
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Louk hulsman
Life
After finishing school Hulsman hooked up with a resistance movement. In 1944 he was convicted of using counterfeit identification papers and imprisoned at the Amersfoort concentration camp. While being transferred to Germany he successfully escaped. After returning to the Netherlands he joined the Allied troops as a soldier during the last weeks of the Second World War.
From 1945 to 1948 Hulsman studied jurisprudence at Leiden University. After his exams he first worked for the Dutch Ministry of War and later for the Dutch Ministry of Justice. In 1963 he became a professor for criminal law und criminology at the Netherlands School of Economics, the later Erasmus University Rotterdam (emeritus 1986). He is a main author of the Council of the Europe’s influential report on decriminalization (Council of the European Union, Report on Decriminalization, Strasbourg 1980)
He last lectured at the Academia Vitae in Deventer.
Together with Nils Christie and Thomas Mathiesen he is a distinguished representative of the prison abolition movement.