Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context

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