Written by leading prison scholars from the Nordic countries as well as selected researchers from the Anglo world 'looking in', this text 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.
Written by leading prison scholars from the Nordic countries as well as selected researchers from the Anglo world 'looking in', this text explores and...
How can adult men retain their masculinity and sense of self when they, as prisoners, are given less freedom than a child? This book shows how prisoners, through relentless creative entrepreneurship, are able to bend rules and 'fool the system', and thus reclaim their sense of both freedom and manhood.Based on extensive ethnographic field work in Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between forms of power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity in everyday life in prison. The book reveals how prisoners turn themselves into active...
How can adult men retain their masculinity and sense of self when they, as prisoners, are given less freedom than a child? This book shows how prisone...
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model societies', with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfare policies, ideologies and social control in strong centralistic states. Based on extensive new empirical data, leading Nordic and international scholars discuss the relationship between prison conditions...
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hail...
