Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model. Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these approaches also had a particular value for other criminal justice systems. Specific actors, both internal and external to the region itself, have branded Nordic criminal justice as a form of 'penal exceptionalism' associated with human rights, universalistic welfare, and social cohesion. The book shows how building and using the brand of Nordic criminal justice allowed stakeholders to champion specific forms of crime control across a variety of criminal justice areas in both domestic and international settings. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminal justice, international law and justice, Nordic and Scandinavian studies, and more widely to the social sciences and humanities.

Mikkel Jarle Christensen is Professor with special responsibilities at iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Kjersti Lohne is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. Magnus Hörnqvist is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Introduction: Nordic criminal justice in a global world Part 1: Practices of Nordic Criminal Justice 1. Defending the North and Exporting its Criminal Justice: The reproduction of Nordic criminal justice cohesion in a global world 2. Shaping Nordic Punishment: Penal exceptionalism and the correctional revolution at Ringe prison in the 1970s 3. Nordic Perspectives on International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law Part 2: Promoting Nordic Criminal Justice 4. To be both in the world and yet not of it: Swedish drug policy and the international context 5. Swedish, Nordic, European: The journey of a 'model' to abolish prostitution 6. A cult(ure) of intelligence-led policing: On the international campaigning and convictions of Danish policing 7. Nordic penal humanitarianism: Status-building, brand-alignment, and penal power 8. From Model to Problem: The Demise of Sweden's Anti-Torture Brand 9. Through Scandinavia, darkly: A criminological critique of Nordic noir