RT Article
T1 An unpaid debt to society: how ‘punishment debt’ affects reintegration and desistance from crime in Norway
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 6
SP 1478
OP 1497
A1 John, Todd-Kvam
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1678003697
AB The Scandinavian exceptionalism literature has highlighted the relatively progressive and rehabilitative nature of imprisonment in Norway, with the Norwegian Correctional Services taking the view that those convicted of crimes have paid their debt to society at the end of their sentence. However, other parts of the Norwegian state take a more stringent view, imposing and enforcing significant and persistent debts on offenders. This article, based on official documents and interviews with Norwegian desisters and probation caseworkers, analyses how living with debt poses a major challenge for reintegration and desistance. Referred to informally as ‘punishment debt’, this pervasive but less visible aspect of Norwegian penality demonstrates the need to broaden the penal exceptionalism research agenda beyond the confines of the prison.
K1 Debt
K1 Scandinavian exceptionalism
K1 Norway
K1 Reintegration and resettlement
K1 Desistance
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Strafkultur
K1 Gefängnis
K1 Norwegen
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz024