Other abolitionists go even further, and question the whole concept of crime, and therefore of the necessity or justification for punishment. Events which we now consider as crimes, they would argue, are better conceived as problematic events, which may require a variety of responses, such as reparation, restitution, reconciliation of the parties, or perhaps improve¬ment of the social circumstances of the 'offender' (Hulsnian and Bernat de Celis 1982).