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Paperback Contrasts in Punishment: An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism Book

ISBN: 0415656907

ISBN13: 9780415656900

Contrasts in Punishment: An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism

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Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks to answer these questions.

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