Background
Mathiesen, Thomas was born on October 5, 1933 in Oslo. Son of Einar and Birgit Mathiesen.
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Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen’s The Politics of Abolition is a landmark text in critical criminology. In its examination of Scandinavian penal policy and call for the abolition of prisons, this book was enormously influential across Europe and beyond among criminologists, sociologists and legal scholars, as well as advocates of prisoners’ rights. Forty years on and in the context of mass incarceration in many parts of the world, this book remains relevant to a new generation of penal scholars. This new edition includes a new introduction from the author, as well as an afterword that collects contributions from leading criminologists and inmates from Germany, England, Norway and the United States to reflect on the development and current state of the academic literature on penal abolition. This book will be suitable for academics and students of criminology and sociology, as well as those studying political science. It will also be of great interest to those who read the original book and are looking for new insights into an issue that is still as important and topical today as it was forty years ago.
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Mathiesen, Thomas was born on October 5, 1933 in Oslo. Son of Einar and Birgit Mathiesen.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1955. Master of Arts, University Oslo, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oslo, 1965.
In 1958 (major subject: sociology, minor subject: psychology and social anthropology) from the University of Oslo, where he did his doctorate in 1965. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of sociology of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (emeritus 2004). He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara (1967) and Berkeley (1975), the University of Tromsø (1980), also the University of Warsaw (1988) and the University of Bremen (1988).
Together with Nils Christie and Louk Hulsman he is a distinguished representative of the prison abolition movement.
He writes in Norwegian and English, several of his books have been translated into other languages, including Swedish, Danish, German, Italian and Spanish. Mathiesen was one of the inspirers of the British prisoners movement, Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP) and even spoke at their foundation meeting.
Mathiesen also presented a paper at the eleventh symposium of the National Deviancy Conference in September 1972 entitled "Strategies of Resistance within a Total Institution".
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Some of Mathiesen"s books in English include The Politics of Abolition (1974), Silently Silenced (2004) and Towards a Surveillant Society (2013). In The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault"s "Panopticon" revisited (1997), Mathiesen presented the concept of the Synopticon or "surveillance of the many by the few", as the sociological reciprocal of Panopticism, which Foucault described in Discipline and Punish.
Member Norwegian Association Penal Reform (co-founder, chairman 1968-1973), Norwegian Association Criminalists, Norwegian Association for Critical Law, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Erla Bergthorsdottir Smari, March 10, 1995. Children: Snorre, Sindre.
