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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on December 24, 2007
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azm072
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azm072 (2007)
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SCANDINAVIAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN AN ERA OF PENAL EXCESS

Part I: The Nature and Roots of Scandinavian Exceptionalism

John Pratt*

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


  Abstract

This is the first of a two-part paper on penal exceptionalism in Scandinavia—that is, low rates of imprisonment and humane prison conditions. Part I examines the roots of this exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state.


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