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Contrasts in Punishment between Anglophone and Scandinavian Societies
Professor John Pratt (Criminology) has been awarded a James Cook Fellowship (2009-2012) to research the major differences in the punishment of offenders between New Zealand, England and Australia (Anglophone countries) and the Scandinavian countries. This research is a study in comparative penology that explains the origins, development and contemporary differences in penal values, cultures and strategies between these clusters of modern societies. The goal of the research is to provide an explanation of why levels of imprisonment and prison conditions differ so much between the selected Anglophone and Scandinavian societies.Anthropologists in the News
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