RT Article
T1 Punishing inequality: notes on social worth from Sweden
JF Tracing the relationship between inequality, crime, and punishment
SP 222
OP 241
A1 Barker, Vanessa
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1879543826
AB This chapter revisits key concepts of equality, inequality and punishment in the Nordic context. By reexamining who and what the welfare state is for, and who and what punishment is for, it questions the presumed universality of equality in the Nordic context. Instead, it will argue that equality is conditional. It is conditional upon a hierarchy of social worth, with negative implications for punishment. This chapter draws our attention to a new form penal power - penal nationalism - in which penal power is used to uphold national interests, in this case, welfare state preservation and equality for insiders, at the expense of inequality for outsiders.
SN 9780197266922
K1 Inequality
K1 Penal nationalism
K1 Welfare State
K1 Punishment
K1 Nordic
DO 10.5871/bacad/9780197266922.003.0009