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Nov 16, 2021 · In a book he edited, Crime and Justice in Scandinavia, a key difference between the U.S. and Finland is illustrated. Neighborhood watch programs in the U.S. emphasize surveillance and reporting of suspicious activities to the police.
- Drama Versus Reality on The Ground
- Strategic Changes on The Right
- The Anti-Racist Forces Are Learning, Too
- Takeaway For Americans
At first it seems a paradox that expressions of racism can intensify even while substantial progress is being made. On reflection, I realized why: Those on the losing side will fight harder exactly because they see they are losing. Every day, like water wearing away a rock, positive change is happening. On that same visit, I attended a family birth...
The forces for and against racism continue to experiment with different tactics as the conflict continues. The largest and most mainstream force doing fear-mongering about immigration is the Progress Party. The party picked up a racist thread that has historically been a part of Norwegian culture and hopes to persuade the citizenry that immigration...
Despite the pushback, Linløkken told me the anti-racists are winning in Sweden as well as Norway. They also continue to review their strategies. Norwegians learned from the Swedes the importance of fighting to get people of color in places of high visibility in television and other media. Swedes invited a team of Norwegian researchers to study thei...
The evidence from the Nordic struggle suggests that 1960s civil rights leaders Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. were right in seeing that economic justice is essential to the struggle. In 2016, the Movement for Black Lives took a similar stand by issuing its platform, a vision of the policy changes that would give the U...
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Nov 3, 2020 · Because restorative justice is at the heart of Scandinavian rehabilitation models, there may be value in first examining how well that process addresses prisoners’ racial circumstances. Source: 2020 Data, World Prison Brief.
Nov 29, 2021 · How Some European Prisons Are Based on Dignity Instead of Dehumanization. Prisons in Northern Europe are actually supportive, and they see lower rates of violence and recidivism. This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive excess that has come to define America’s criminal legal system.
Apr 29, 2021 · “The extent to which this 'Scandinavian exceptionalism' exists in reality and what separates prison systems in Nordic countries from other areas of the world is an ongoing debate amongst prison scholars,” said the University of Oslo's Boyle.
Oct 5, 2022 · People who do end up in Nordic prisons can spend a much shorter period there than offenders in other countries. The maximum term in the Norwegian criminal justice system, for example, is 21 years.
Sep 24, 2013 · Sustaining the barrier between populist politics and results-based prison policy are media that don’t sensationalize crime—if they report it at all.
