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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access originally published online on December 24, 2007
British Journal of Criminology 2008 48(3):275-292; doi:10.1093/bjc/azm073
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The British Journal of Criminology 48:275-292 (2008)
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Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess

Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?

John Pratt*

* Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand; John.Pratt{at}vuw.ac.nz.


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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.


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