Punishment and Crime in Scandinavia, 1750–2008

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11348984
AutoresHANNS VON HOFER (Stockholm University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas33-107
Data de publicação2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCrime and Justice (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0192-3234 • E-ISSN: 2153-0416
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/658891
OpenAlexW2155829956
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas77

Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have collected criminal justice data since at least the first half of the nineteenth century. These data can be used to describe basic trends in criminal justice interventions as regards violent and property offenses. They can also be used to screen the potential effects of criminal justice interventions on crime compared with more basic structural factors such as urbanization, industrialization, migration, and control of substance use. The marginal effects of changes in criminal sanctions appear to be negligible for the development of recorded crime. These changes include use and abolition of the death penalty, the gradual replacement of imprisonment with alternative sanctions, and the shifting use of fines. The influence of urbanization and industrialization appears to be insignificant, but measures to control alcohol use have had a great effect on violence, as have changes in the opportunity structure on theft. Viewed over the long term, criminal justice interventions during the twentieth century were inefficient in controlling the development of crime and criminals in Scandinavia

Criminal justice · Criminology · Deterrence (psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Imprisonment · Industrialisation · Political science · Psychological intervention · Punishment (psychology · Sanctions · Sociology · Urbanization · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology