SCANDINAVIAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN AN ERA OF PENAL EXCESS Part I : The Nature and Roots of Scandinavian Exceptionalism
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The authors examines the roots of penal exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state.Citations
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Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1: Crafting the Neoliberal State
TL;DR: In Punishing the Poor as mentioned in this paper, the authors show that the ascent of the penal state in the United States and other advanced societies over the past quarter-century is a response to rising social insecurity, not criminal insecurity; that changes in welfare and justice policies are interlinked, as restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare" are coupled into a single organizational contraption to discipline the precarious fractions of the postindustrial working class; and that a diligent carceral system is not a deviation from, but a constituent component of, the neoliberal Leviathan.
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Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA.
TL;DR: How mass incarceration shapes inequality in health is examined, which raises concerns that excessive incarceration could harm entire communities and thus might partly underlie health disparities both in the USA and between theUSA and other developed countries.
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Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1
TL;DR: In Punishing the Poor as discussed by the authors, the authors show that the ascent of the penal state in the United States and other advanced societies over the past quarter-century is a response to rising social insecurity, not criminal insecurity; that changes in welfare and justice policies are interlinked, as restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare" are coupled into a single organizational contraption to discipline the precarious fractions of the postindustrial working class; and that a diligent carceral system is not a deviation from, but a constituent component of, the neoliberal Leviathan.
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Inequality and the health-care system in the USA
Samuel Dickman,David U. Himmelstein,David U. Himmelstein,Steffie Woolhandler,Steffie Woolhandler +4 more
TL;DR: This report focuses on how the health-care system, which could reduce income-based disparities in health, instead often exacerbates them and additional reforms that move forward, rather than backward, from the ACA are sorely needed.
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WORK, FAMILY AND CRIMINAL DESISTANCE Adult Social Bonds in a Nordic Welfare State
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an application of Sampson and Laub's theory of age-graded informal social control in a national environment in which the structural and cultural contexts of work and family are radically different from the United States, where the theory was developed.
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Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research
Michael Tonry,Norval Morris +1 more
TL;DR: The British Journal of Criminology (BJC) is a collection of essays in the social sciences which has achieved so high and consistent a standard of scholarship and presentation as discussed by the authors.
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The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875–1975
TL;DR: The origins of the solidaristic welfare state: Scandinavia, Britain and Scandinavia as discussed by the authors, from Beveridge back to Bismarck: the superannuation issue.
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Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment
TL;DR: In this article, a set of interrelated hypotheses on the impact of the institutionalization of knowledge production in the public, political, and academic sectors and political and legal decision making on macro outcomes of political and decision making using the case of criminal punishment is presented.