RT Article
T1 Doing Indefinite Time: Penal Confinement and the Life-Imprisoned Offender in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
JF The prison journal
VO 99
IS 1
SP 66
OP 88
A1 Schartmueller, Doris
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743005121
AB Penal confinement in Danish, Finnish, and Swedish prisons has become a topic of growing interest in comparative penal research. While prison sentences in these countries are characterized by reintegration, offenders serving life sentences with unknown dates of release pose particular challenges. This study involved comparing and contrasting the enforcement of life sentences in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden through comparative legal research and interviews with criminal justice practitioners. The findings suggest reintegrative efforts for life-imprisoned offenders are in theory the same as those for any other prisoner but, in practice, some implementation difficulties arise due to the indefinite character of their sentence.
K1 Life Imprisonment
K1 Penal confinement
K1 Reintegration
K1 Denmark
K1 Finland
K1 Sweden
DO 10.1177/0032885518814727