Clara Wichmann (1885-1922) was a German-Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, born in Hamburg and based in the Netherlands, who became a leading advocate for criminal justice reform and prison abolition, arguing in her 1912 doctoral thesis for the abolition of prisons and punitive justice as what she called a mark of backwardness, coarseness, shallowness and harshness. She co-founded the Dutch Society for Womens Suffrage in 1908, established the Committee of Action against existing views on Crime and Punishment in 1919, and co-founded the Union of Religious Anarcho-Communists in 1920, publishing widely on criminal reform and syndicalism.
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Clara Gertrud Wichmann (17 August 1885-15 February 1922) was a German-Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.
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Clara Gertrud Wichmann (17 August 1885-15 February 1922) was a German-Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.
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Clara Gertrud Wichmann (17 August 1885-15 February 1922) was a German-Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.
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She developed a theory of criminal law that advocated for the abolition of prisons and punitive justice, which she elaborated in her thesis, graduating as a Doctor of Law in 1912.
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Clara Gertrud Wichmann (17 August 1885-15 February 1922) was a German-Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.
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