Straff-välfärdsstaten och kontrollkultur i svensk kriminalpolitik
Swedish criminal policy has changed markedly in the years following World War II. This change shows clear parallels to the processes described in David Garland’s The Culture of Control. The current analysis, however, indicates that developments in Sweden differ in important ways from processes discu...
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De Nordiske Kriminalistforeninger
2019-03-01
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| description | Swedish criminal policy has changed markedly in the years following World War II. This change shows clear parallels to the processes described in David Garland’s The Culture of Control. The current analysis, however, indicates that developments in Sweden differ in important ways from processes discussed by Garland. First, Garland’s hypotheses concerning factors that tend to increase crime and the fear of crime do not hold true for Sweden. Second, the notion that an increasingly punitive population has pressured its political representatives for more penal legislation and more prisons is not supported by the Swedish data. Third, the movement toward a harsher criminal policy may actually have resulted from dynamics within the welfare state itself. The punitive turn should therefore be understood as a political change from above rather than a cultural change from below. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6ede6096db75449f9bba28961f4d1b712025-01-08T07:29:38ZdanDe Nordiske KriminalistforeningerNordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab2446-30512019-03-01106161810.7146/ntfk.v106i1.124721117955Straff-välfärdsstaten och kontrollkultur i svensk kriminalpolitikHenrik ThamSwedish criminal policy has changed markedly in the years following World War II. This change shows clear parallels to the processes described in David Garland’s The Culture of Control. The current analysis, however, indicates that developments in Sweden differ in important ways from processes discussed by Garland. First, Garland’s hypotheses concerning factors that tend to increase crime and the fear of crime do not hold true for Sweden. Second, the notion that an increasingly punitive population has pressured its political representatives for more penal legislation and more prisons is not supported by the Swedish data. Third, the movement toward a harsher criminal policy may actually have resulted from dynamics within the welfare state itself. The punitive turn should therefore be understood as a political change from above rather than a cultural change from below.https://tidsskrift.dk/NTfK/article/view/124721 |
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