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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Mikkel Jarle Christensen, Kjersti Lohne, Magnus Hörnqvist Copyright 2023
200 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model. Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze 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... Read more

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

5. Swedish, Nordic, European: The journey of a ‘model’ to abolish prostitution

Isabel Crowhurst and May-Len Skilbrei

6. A cult(ure) of intelligence-led policing: On the international campaigning and convictions of Danish policing

David Brehm Sausdal

7. Nordic penal humanitarianism: Status-building, brand-alignment, and penal power

Kjersti Lohne

8. From Model to Problem: The Demise of Sweden’s Anti-Torture Brand

Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Axel Tengwall

9. Through Scandinavia, darkly: A criminological critique of Nordic noir

Keith Hayward and Steve Hall

Biography

Mikkel Jarle Christensen is Professor with special responsibilities at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kjersti Lohne is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Magnus Hörnqvist is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

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