A critical look at Scandinavian exceptionalism: Welfare state theories, penal populism and prison conditions in Denmark and Scandinavia

Penal Exceptionalism?: Nordic Prison Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 38-57

  Smith, Peter Scharff ^a  

^a Danish Institute for Human Rights   (Denmark)

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