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Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion of Exceptionalism

Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion of Exceptionalism

Author: Mikkel Jarle Christensen; Kjersti Lohne; Magnus Hörnqvist
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032049793
Published In: October 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.

Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyse how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these approaches also had a particular value for other criminal justice systems. Specific actors, both internal and external to the region itself, have branded Nordic criminal justice as a form of ‘penal exceptionalism’ associated with human rights, universalistic welfare and social cohesion. The book shows how building and using the brand of Nordic criminal justice allowed stakeholders to champion specific forms of crime control across a variety of criminal justice areas in both domestic and international settings.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminal justice, international law and justice, Nordic and Scandinavian studies, and more widely to the social sciences and humanities.

Introduction: Nordic criminal justice in a global world

Mikkel Jarle Christensen, Kjersti Lohne and Magnus Hörnqvist

Part 1: Practices of Nordic Criminal Justice

1. Defending the North and Exporting its Criminal Justice: The reproduction of Nordic criminal justice cohesion in a global world

Mikkel Jarle Christensen

2. Shaping Nordic Punishment: Penal exceptionalism and the correctional revolution at Ringe prison in the 1970s

Peter Fransen and Peter Scharff Smith

3. Nordic Perspectives on International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law

Mark Klamberg

Part 2: Promoting Nordic Criminal Justice

4. To be both in the world and yet not of it: Swedish drug policy and the international context

Henrik Tham and Johan Edman