Penal Exceptionalism?

Nordic Prison Policy and Practice
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-67295-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

In the growing field of comparative criminal justice, the Nordic countries are regularly used as exceptions to the global move towards growing rates of imprisonment and tougher, less welfare-oriented crime-control policies.

Why are the Nordic penal institutions viewed as so ‘different’ from a non-Nordic vantage point? Are Nordic prisons and penal policies in fact positive exceptions to the general rule? If they are, what exactly are the exceptional qualities, and why are the Nordic societies lucky enough to have them? Are there important overlooked examples of Nordic ‘bad practice’ in the penal area? Could there be a specifically Nordic way of doing prison research, contributing to the gap between internal and external perspectives?
In considering – among others – the above questions, this book explores and discusses the Nordic jurisdictions as contexts for the specific penal policies and practices that may or may not be described as exceptional.

Written by leading prison scholars from the Nordic countries as well as selected researchers from the English-speaking world ‘looking in’, this book will be particularly useful for students of criminology and practitioners across the Nordic countries, but also of relevance in a wider geographical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ugelvik, Thomas

Dullum, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Nordeuropa (Skandinavien)
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: exceptional prisons, exceptional societies? Jane Dullum and Thomas Ugelvik Part I: Exceptions or not? 2. Scandinavian exceptionalism in penal matters - reality or wishful thinking? Thomas Mathiesen 3. A critical look at Scandinavian exceptionalism: welfare state theories, penal populism, and prison conditions in Denmark and Scandinavia, Peter Scharff Smith 4. Media, crime and Nordic exceptionalism: the limits of convergence, David A. Green Part II: Commodification of exceptional penal systems 5. 'The most progressive, effective correctional system in the world': the Swedish prison system in the 1960s and 1970s, Roddy Nilsson 6. Comparisons at work - exporting 'exceptional' norms, Andrew M. Jefferson Part III: Closing in in the Nordic I: Cultures of equality? 7. The dark side of a culture of equality: reimagining communities in a Norwegian remand prison, Thomas Ugelvik 8. Imprisoning the soul, Cecilie Basberg Neumann 9. A blessing in disguise: the ADHD-diagnoses and Swedish correctional treatment policy in the 21st century, Robert Andersson Part IV: Closing in on the Nordic II: Prison management and prison cultures 10. Are liberal humanitarian penal values and practices exceptional? Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling 11. Prison size and the quality of life in Norwegian closed prisons in late modernity, Berit Johnsen and Per Kristian Granheim 12. A harsher prison climate and a cultural heritage working against it - sub-cultural divisions among Swedish prison officers, Anders Bruhn, Odd Lindberg and Per-Ake Nylander Part V: Scandinavian exceptionalism revisited 13. In defence of Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt and Anna Eriksson

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Ugelvik is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. His Ph.D. is an ethnography of prisoner-subjectivation processes in and through the everyday life and power struggles of the institution. His research interests also include crime and the media, gender issues, and cultural criminology. He has published on violence against prison officers, power/resistance relationships in prison, and masculinity theory.

Jane Dullum is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. In her Ph.D. she analysed the development of the psychiatric institutions in Norway, with a special focus on the decarceration of the mentally ill. She has done research on economic crime, restorative justice, topics regarding the rule of law, prisons and prison education, and miscarriages of justice.