Peter Scharff Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5238784 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Scharff Smith |
| NOMBRES | Peter Scharff |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH P S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6477-3141 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ideology and the Application of Law in SS Courts
This article provides an empirical study of the inner workings of an institution at the ideological heart of the Nazi state, the SS courts, and analyses how they applied SS law in cases involving unlawful sexual conduct, and how they evaluated the racial characteristics of SS men standing trial. The article demonstrates (1) that the SS courts promoted what has been referred to as an ‘unlimited’, radical ideology. However, the analysis will also r…
Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law
This open access book pays homage to Reza Banakar, who passed away in August 2020, exploring the many different areas of socio-legal research that he worked on and influenced. It begins with a summary of his career and explains how he sparked a debate on the identity and aims of legal sociology. The book is then split into five sections which look at theory, methods and interdisciplinarity, legal culture, law and sociology of law, and applied soc…
This is Denmark
According to mainstream criminology, Nordic societies with their generous welfare states are supposed to moderate, if not restrict, penal powers. In the case of migration, we see the opposite pattern. In Denmark, we see extended use of penal institutions and penal harms to contain and remove unwanted populations from the region, including proposals for a prison island and the confinement of migrants in 19th century prisons. To make sense of these…
Solitary Confinement
The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty, it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous i…
Prisoners’ Families, Public Opinion, and the State
This chapter moves the focus from the offender-state binary to a broader discussion about the relationship between penal policies, prisons, and society. It does so using a partly Durkheimian approach. The sociologist Émile Durkheim saw the function of the institutions of penality less as a form of instrumental rationality and more as a kind of routinized expression of emotion. According to such an approach, thinking of punishment as a calculated …
The Sociology of Punishment and the Effects of Imprisonment on Families
This chapter considers the impact of criminal justice and particularly prison upon the families of offenders and the ways in which they are drawn into the realm of punishment. It explores how imprisonment creates, reproduces, and reinforces patterns of social inequality. The chapter shows how prisoners’ families occupy an odd position of an increasing visibility in the academic realm. Much earlier work on prisoners’ families was concerned with id…
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family
This book draws together chapters from eight countries to explore the severe effects that prison has on the families of prisoners. There are millions of people affected by the imprisonment of a family member each year and they suffer a wide range of difficulties. This has important implications for society as prisoners’ families experience social exclusion and inequality, despite being innocent citizens. This is important for how we think about t…
Introduction
Imagine a prison. What does it look like? Who live inside? How are they treated? Ask these questions of children, and they will tend to give you a pretty straightforward answer based on what they have learned from adults and quite often what they have seen in movies, TV series and on the Internet: “The windows are very small and it’s dark,” “you wear a blue uniform—or orange,” “the guards are strict because you are criminal” and so on. Many learn…
Punishment and Welfare in Scandinavia
Analytically, one could argue that the literature on Scandinavian or Nordic exceptionalism has been characterised by a logic of juxtaposition where specific prisons in specific countries have been used as stand-ins for two ideal types: (1) Punitive penal state prisons, with high prison population rates and punitive and coercive regimes that lack any proper focus on rehabilitation; (2) Egalitarian welfare state prisons, where punishment is humane,…
Punishment Without Conviction? Scandinavian Pre-trial Practices and the Power of the “Benevolent” State
It’s August 2015 and I am sitting in East Jutland prison in Denmark in the middle of a focus group interview with long-term prisoners several of who have sentences running in double digits. This is one of the most modern high-security facilities in all of the Danish penal estate and the prisoners we talk to have generally been imprisoned for many years. I am together with two American research colleagues who are asking the prisoners about how the…
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model societies
When the Innocent are Punished
There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the a
Imprisonment and Internet-Access – Human Rights, the Principle of Normalization and the Question of Prisoners Access to Digital Communications Technology
The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates
The effects of solitary confinement have been debated since at least the middle of the nineteenth century when both Americans and Europeans began to question the then‐widespread use of solitary confinement of convicted offenders. A sizable and impressively sophisticated literature, now largely forgotten, accumulated for more than a half century and documented significant damage to prisoners. More recently the development of supermax prisons in th…
Menneskeretssituationen i Danmark 1999–2003
A Religious Technology of the Self
This article deals with the rise of the modern prison system in Denmark and internationally from the late decades of the 18th century until the mid-19th century. The theoretical focus will be on the interconnectedness of scientific and religious conceptions that – according to this interpretation – formed an ideological base for modern prisons. I discuss how rationality and religion can be understood as naturally conjoined elements in this contex…
Isolation and mental illness in Vridsløselille 1859–1873
In 1866 the 18‐year‐old Danish farmhand Henrik Nielsen arrived in Vridsloselille penitentiary, which had been opened just seven years earlier as Denmark's first isolation prison, built on the model
The Danish Volunteers in the Waffen SS and German Warfare at the Eastern Front
A total of 5,500 Danes joined the Waffen SS during the Second World War. They served primarily on the Eastern Front, often fighting under appalling conditions. The article follows the volunteers in action and examines in detail the Frikorps Danmark (Danish Legion), which provided a significant number of anti-Bolshevik, non-Nazi volunteers for the Waffen SS. The article analyses the behaviour of these men and focuses on the issue of ideological co…
The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates
The effects of solitary confinement have been debated since at least the middle of the nineteenth century when both Americans and Europeans began to question the then‐widespread use of solitary confinement of convicted offenders. A sizable and impressively sophisticated literature, now largely forgotten, accumulated for more than a half century and documented significant damage to prisoners. More recently the development of supermax prisons in th…
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model societies
This is Denmark
According to mainstream criminology, Nordic societies with their generous welfare states are supposed to moderate, if not restrict, penal powers. In the case of migration, we see the opposite pattern. In Denmark, we see extended use of penal institutions and penal harms to contain and remove unwanted populations from the region, including proposals for a prison island and the confinement of migrants in 19th century prisons. To make sense of these…
A Religious Technology of the Self
This article deals with the rise of the modern prison system in Denmark and internationally from the late decades of the 18th century until the mid-19th century. The theoretical focus will be on the interconnectedness of scientific and religious conceptions that – according to this interpretation – formed an ideological base for modern prisons. I discuss how rationality and religion can be understood as naturally conjoined elements in this contex…
The Danish Volunteers in the Waffen SS and German Warfare at the Eastern Front
A total of 5,500 Danes joined the Waffen SS during the Second World War. They served primarily on the Eastern Front, often fighting under appalling conditions. The article follows the volunteers in action and examines in detail the Frikorps Danmark (Danish Legion), which provided a significant number of anti-Bolshevik, non-Nazi volunteers for the Waffen SS. The article analyses the behaviour of these men and focuses on the issue of ideological co…
Isolation and mental illness in Vridsløselille 1859–1873
In 1866 the 18‐year‐old Danish farmhand Henrik Nielsen arrived in Vridsloselille penitentiary, which had been opened just seven years earlier as Denmark's first isolation prison, built on the model
The Danish Volunteers in the Waffen SS and German Warfare at the Eastern Front
A total of 5,500 Danes joined the Waffen SS during the Second World War. They served primarily on the Eastern Front, often fighting under appalling conditions. The article follows the volunteers in action and examines in detail the Frikorps Danmark (Danish Legion), which provided a significant number of anti-Bolshevik, non-Nazi volunteers for the Waffen SS. The article analyses the behaviour of these men and focuses on the issue of ideological co…
Menneskeretssituationen i Danmark 1999–2003
A Religious Technology of the Self
This article deals with the rise of the modern prison system in Denmark and internationally from the late decades of the 18th century until the mid-19th century. The theoretical focus will be on the interconnectedness of scientific and religious conceptions that – according to this interpretation – formed an ideological base for modern prisons. I discuss how rationality and religion can be understood as naturally conjoined elements in this contex…
Isolation and mental illness in Vridsløselille 1859–1873
In 1866 the 18‐year‐old Danish farmhand Henrik Nielsen arrived in Vridsloselille penitentiary, which had been opened just seven years earlier as Denmark's first isolation prison, built on the model
The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates
The effects of solitary confinement have been debated since at least the middle of the nineteenth century when both Americans and Europeans began to question the then‐widespread use of solitary confinement of convicted offenders. A sizable and impressively sophisticated literature, now largely forgotten, accumulated for more than a half century and documented significant damage to prisoners. More recently the development of supermax prisons in th…
Imprisonment and Internet-Access – Human Rights, the Principle of Normalization and the Question of Prisoners Access to Digital Communications Technology
When the Innocent are Punished
There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the a
Introduction
Imagine a prison. What does it look like? Who live inside? How are they treated? Ask these questions of children, and they will tend to give you a pretty straightforward answer based on what they have learned from adults and quite often what they have seen in movies, TV series and on the Internet: “The windows are very small and it’s dark,” “you wear a blue uniform—or orange,” “the guards are strict because you are criminal” and so on. Many learn…
Punishment and Welfare in Scandinavia
Analytically, one could argue that the literature on Scandinavian or Nordic exceptionalism has been characterised by a logic of juxtaposition where specific prisons in specific countries have been used as stand-ins for two ideal types: (1) Punitive penal state prisons, with high prison population rates and punitive and coercive regimes that lack any proper focus on rehabilitation; (2) Egalitarian welfare state prisons, where punishment is humane,…
Punishment Without Conviction? Scandinavian Pre-trial Practices and the Power of the “Benevolent” State
It’s August 2015 and I am sitting in East Jutland prison in Denmark in the middle of a focus group interview with long-term prisoners several of who have sentences running in double digits. This is one of the most modern high-security facilities in all of the Danish penal estate and the prisoners we talk to have generally been imprisoned for many years. I am together with two American research colleagues who are asking the prisoners about how the…
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model societies
Prisoners’ Families, Public Opinion, and the State
This chapter moves the focus from the offender-state binary to a broader discussion about the relationship between penal policies, prisons, and society. It does so using a partly Durkheimian approach. The sociologist Émile Durkheim saw the function of the institutions of penality less as a form of instrumental rationality and more as a kind of routinized expression of emotion. According to such an approach, thinking of punishment as a calculated …
The Sociology of Punishment and the Effects of Imprisonment on Families
This chapter considers the impact of criminal justice and particularly prison upon the families of offenders and the ways in which they are drawn into the realm of punishment. It explores how imprisonment creates, reproduces, and reinforces patterns of social inequality. The chapter shows how prisoners’ families occupy an odd position of an increasing visibility in the academic realm. Much earlier work on prisoners’ families was concerned with id…
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family
This book draws together chapters from eight countries to explore the severe effects that prison has on the families of prisoners. There are millions of people affected by the imprisonment of a family member each year and they suffer a wide range of difficulties. This has important implications for society as prisoners’ families experience social exclusion and inequality, despite being innocent citizens. This is important for how we think about t…
Solitary Confinement
The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty, it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous i…
This is Denmark
According to mainstream criminology, Nordic societies with their generous welfare states are supposed to moderate, if not restrict, penal powers. In the case of migration, we see the opposite pattern. In Denmark, we see extended use of penal institutions and penal harms to contain and remove unwanted populations from the region, including proposals for a prison island and the confinement of migrants in 19th century prisons. To make sense of these…
Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law
This open access book pays homage to Reza Banakar, who passed away in August 2020, exploring the many different areas of socio-legal research that he worked on and influenced. It begins with a summary of his career and explains how he sparked a debate on the identity and aims of legal sociology. The book is then split into five sections which look at theory, methods and interdisciplinarity, legal culture, law and sociology of law, and applied soc…
Ideology and the Application of Law in SS Courts
This article provides an empirical study of the inner workings of an institution at the ideological heart of the Nazi state, the SS courts, and analyses how they applied SS law in cases involving unlawful sexual conduct, and how they evaluated the racial characteristics of SS men standing trial. The article demonstrates (1) that the SS courts promoted what has been referred to as an ‘unlimited’, radical ideology. However, the analysis will also r…
Political science (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Criminology (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 obras) · Prison (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Punishment (psychology) (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)