Broschiertes Buch

Penal Exceptionalism?

Nordic Prison Policy and Practice

Herausgeber: Ugelvik, Thomas; Dullum, Jane

Beschreibung

Written by leading prison scholars from the Nordic countries as well as selected researchers from the English-speaking world 'looking in', this book explores and discusses the Nordic jurisdictions as contexts for the specific penal policies and practices that may or may not be described as the 'exception from the rule'.

Autor

Thomas Ugelvik is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. His Ph.D. is an ethnography of prisoner-subjectivation processes in and through the everyday life and power struggles of the institution. His research interests also include crime and the media, gender issues, and cultural criminology. He has published on violence against prison officers, power/resistance relationships in prison, and masculinity theory. Jane Dullum is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. In her Ph.D. she analysed the development of the psychiatric institutions in Norway, with a special focus on the decarceration of the mentally ill. She has done research on economic crime, restorative justice, topics regarding the rule of law, prisons and prison education, and miscarriages of justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780415672955
• ISBN-10: 0415672953
• Artikelnr.: 32939352