Penal Exceptionalism?

Abstract

1. Introduction: exceptional prisons, exceptional societies? Jane Dullum and Thomas Ugelvik Part I: Exceptions or not? 2. Scandinavian exceptionalism in penal matters - reality or wishful thinking? Thomas Mathiesen 3. A critical look at Scandinavian exceptionalism: welfare state theories, penal populism, and prison conditions in Denmark and Scandinavia, Peter Scharff Smith 4. Media, crime and Nordic exceptionalism: the limits of convergence, David A. Green Part II: Commodification of exceptional penal systems 5. 'The most progressive, effective correctional system in the world': the Swedish prison system in the 1960s and 1970s, Roddy Nilsson 6. Comparisons at work - exporting 'exceptional' norms, Andrew M. Jefferson Part III: Closing in in the Nordic I: Cultures of equality? 7. The dark side of a culture of equality: reimagining communities in a Norwegian remand prison, Thomas Ugelvik 8. Imprisoning the soul, Cecilie Basberg Neumann 9. A blessing in disguise: the ADHD-diagnoses and Swedish correctional treatment policy in the 21st century, Robert Andersson Part IV: Closing in on the Nordic II: Prison management and prison cultures 10. Are liberal humanitarian penal values and practices exceptional? Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling 11. Prison size and the quality of life in Norwegian closed prisons in late modernity, Berit Johnsen and Per Kristian Granheim 12. A harsher prison climate and a cultural heritage working against it - sub-cultural divisions among Swedish prison officers, Anders Bruhn, Odd Lindberg and Per-Ake Nylander Part V: Scandinavian exceptionalism revisited 13. In defence of Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt and Anna Eriksson