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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.
There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment
all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights
and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the
arrest of a parent to imprisonment and release.
There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment
all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights
and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the
arrest of a parent to imprisonment and release.
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.
The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the
rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the
nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison
systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a
panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these
practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the
death penalty it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous
intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations.
Nevertheless, in the United States there is currently an estimated
80-100,000 prisoners in small cells for more than 22 hours per day
with little or no social contact and no physical contact visits
with family or friends. Even in Scandinavia, thousands of prisoners
are placed in solitary confinement every year and with an alarming
frequency. These facts have spawned international interest in this
topic and a growing international reform movement, which includes
researchers, litigators and human rights defenders as well as
prison staff and prisoners. This book is the first to take a broad
international comparative approach and to apply an
interdisciplinary lens to this subject. In this volume
neuroscientists, high level prison officials, social and political
scientists, medical doctors, lawyers and former prisoners and their
families from different countries will address the effects and
practices of prolonged solitary confinement and the movement for
its reform and abolition.
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