The changing role of community sanctions in Norway

The Scandinavian penal exceptionalism literature has focused largely on imprisonment but has yet to explore other aspects of the penal field in detail. This chapter provides an overview of the penal field in Norway and how community sanctions and measures have evolved within it. The author uses the...

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Main Author: Todd-Kvam, John (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Punishment, probation and parole
Year: 2024, Pages: 55-78
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Keywords:
Strafe
Bewährung
Elektronische Überwachung
Scandinavian penal exceptionalism
Community Sanctions
Probation
Electronic Monitoring
'punishment debt'
Norwegen
Norway
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Summary:The Scandinavian penal exceptionalism literature has focused largely on imprisonment but has yet to explore other aspects of the penal field in detail. This chapter provides an overview of the penal field in Norway and how community sanctions and measures have evolved within it. The author uses the work of Wacquant and Bourdieu to argue that there are three important levels within the Norwegian penal field: political, policy and practice. The author also discusses how drivers from the political and policy levels are affecting community-based penal practice. Using McNeill’s dimensions of mass supervision, the author discusses the implications of these changes for three less-explored aspects of punishment in Norway: the serving of short sentences at home on electronic monitoring, supervision of people under 18 and ‘punishment debt’ enforcement.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 74-78
Physical Description:Diagramme
ISBN:9781837531950