Abstract
This chapter is about penal convergence which was then followed by divergence between two clusters of societies: England and New Zealand on the one hand, Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other. First it examines and explains initial post-1945 convergences between them in relation to prison rates and prison development. Secondly, it traces and explains the divergences that have since occurred between them. While these divergences begin around 1960, their pace has quickened, asFigure 10.1 illustrates in relation to prison rates (although Finland did not follow the same course as the other Scandinavian societies until the late 1960s). Indeed, the differences have become so marked that the Anglophone societies are now known for their penal excess (very high levels of imprisonment and deteriorating prison conditions), while the Scandinavian societies are known for their penal exceptionalism (very low levels of imprisonment and humane prison conditions).
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