At the end of last January, the Dutch abolitionist Louk Hulsman died of a heart problem., that in addition to being one of the main theoreticians of the abolitionist movement, He was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Social Defense and a member of the Ibero-American Portal of Criminal Sciences

The 4 February from the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia it was announced that the Stockholm Prize for Criminology 2009 will be awarded to professors Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni and John Hagan, for his scientific studies on genocide.