Keywords

• Home-Grown Abolitionism falls back on one of the basic concepts of abolishing the criminal justice system: to start abolishing it within yourself. By retracing the personal history of Louk Hulsman from his start in the boarding school to his professional life as a dedicated world traveller
• telling academic
• self-experienced tales of abolitionism
• it becomes clear that one will need his own life experiences to develop the right form towards home-grown abolishment. There is no clear-cut scientific mold that will take you there. Through the Second World War
• the first work experiences in the ministries of Defence and Justice
• law making and it's effects
• discussions with judges and lawyers
• Louk's reform turns into abolition. Not out of a radical stance
• but because it is a logical consequence. The Hulsman Foundation is a fruit of that breeding ground that will try to give a platform for free access to the academic inheritance of Louk Hulsman
• with the intention to keep our own breeding ground for authentic thoughts on more humane ways to deal with problematic situations in society
• fertile and alive