Journal article
"WE CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS": ADAPTING SCANDINAVIAN CORRECTIONAL CULTURE IN PENNSYLVANIA
The American criminal law review, Vol.58(4), pp.1715-1746
01 Sep 2021
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Abstract
Though incarceration has almost always been a core aspect of punishment in the United States, a critical consideration of the basic nature of prison environments is often omitted from conversations about reform. Instead, and for myriad reasons, modern correctional policy had emphasized the punitive over the humane. In this way, America is an outlier, distinct from many other Western nations. From this position, however, there are many opportunities to look to global peers for a counterfactual; the Scandinavian nations provide an appealing option. Building upon a comparative, international examination of penal policy, this Article seeks to leverage these differences to explore how transnational exchanges can inform domestic policymaking. We examine the Scandinavian Prison Project, a correctional exchange primarily between Pennsylvania and Norway, to consider the challenges inherent in such endeavors, as well as opportunities for encouraging actionable reform in a prison environment.
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- Title
- "WE CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS": ADAPTING SCANDINAVIAN CORRECTIONAL CULTURE IN PENNSYLVANIA
- Creators
- Jordan M. Hyatt - Drexel UniversitySynove N. Andersen - Univ Oslo, Dept Sociol & Human Geog, Oslo, NorwaySteven L. Chanenson - Villanova Univ, Charles Widger Sch Law, Villanova, PA 19085 USAVeronica Horowitz - Univ Buffalo, Dept Sociol, Buffalo, NY USAChristopher Uggen - Univ Minnesota, Sociol Law & Publ Affairs, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
- Publication Details
- The American criminal law review, Vol.58(4), pp.1715-1746
- Publisher
- Amer Criminal Law Review
- Number of pages
- 32
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies; Center for Public Policy
- Identifiers
- 991019170544104721
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