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Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice - Embraced By the Welfare State? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice - Embraced By the Welfare State? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to
critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic
countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model
societies', with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of
poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal
agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of
the welfare policies, ideologies and social control in strong
centralistic states. Based on extensive new empirical data, leading
Nordic and international scholars discuss the relationship between
prison conditions in Scandinavia and Scandinavian social policy
more generally, and argue that it is not always liberating and
constructive to be embraced by a powerful welfare state. This book
is essential reading for researchers of state punishment in
Scandinavia, and it is highly relevant for anyone interested in the
'Nordic Model' of social policy.
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