Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pratt, John

Titel

Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess

Ist Teil von

• British journal of criminology, 2008-05, Vol.48 (3), p.275-292

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Social Sciences

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Part II of this paper examines the current for prospects for Scandinavian exceptionalism. It argues that Finland, Norway and Sweden have all experienced, to a degree, declines in earlier levels of social solidarity, security and homogeneity, jeopardizing the future of their low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. These experiences have not, though, been uniform—Sweden is now most at risk, the other two less so. The paper goes on to discuss the broader political and sociological implications of Scandinavian exceptionalism in the contemporary era of penal excess.