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Contrasts in Punishment - An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism (Hardcover, New)
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Contrasts in Punishment - An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
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Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to
others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in
their approach to offending and how can these differences be
explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in
the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one
hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks
to answer these questions. The book argues that the penal
differences that currently exist between these two clusters of
societies emanate from their early nineteenth-century social
arrangements, when the Anglophone societies were dominated by
exclusionary value systems that contrasted with the more
inclusionary values of the Nordic countries. The development of
their penal programmes over this two hundred year period, including
the much earlier demise of the death penalty in the Nordic
countries and significant differences between the respective prison
rates and prison conditions of the two clusters, reflects the
continuing influence of these values. Indeed, in the early 21st
century these differences have become even more pronounced. John
Pratt and Anna Eriksson offer a unique contribution to this topic
of growing importance: comparative research in the history and
sociology of punishment. This book will be of interest to those
studying criminology, sociology, punishment, prison and penal
policy, as well as professionals working in prisons or in the area
of penal policy across the six societies that feature in the book.
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