John Pratt, Anna Eriksson

Contrasts in Punishment (eBook, PDF)

An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the penal differences between Anglophone and Scandinavian countries and explores how these two clusters of societies came to develop their own sets of cultural values and welfare state models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136217005
• Artikelnr.: 41066254

Autorenporträt

John Pratt is Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From 2009-2012 he was also a Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellow in Social Science and Fellow of the Straus Institute for Advanced Studies of Law and Justice at New York University 2010-11. He has published extensively in the areas of the history and sociology of punishment and comparative penology. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize by the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology.

Anna Eriksson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. In 2009 she was awarded the New Scholar Prize by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology for best publication, and in 2012 one of only two Australian Research Councils Awards for early career researchers in criminology, funding a three-year study on comparative punishment between Australia and Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Investigating end explaining differences in punishment 2.
The production of cultural differences 3. Two welfare states 4. The
introduction of modern penal arrangements 5. Two welfare sanctions 6.
Punishment in the age of anxiety.