| Tittel: | Brottslighet och brottskontroll i Finland och de andra Nordiska länderna: Banbrytare eller eftersläntrare? |
| Ansvar: | Per Ole Träskman |
| Forfatter: | Träskman, Per Ole  |
| Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk |
| Signatur: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab |
| Utgitt: | København : De nordiske kriminalistforeninger, 2015 |
| Omfang: | S. 149-174 |
| Serie: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab ; 2/2015 |
| Geografiske emneord: | Finland |
| Innhold: | Abstract
The Finnish Society for Criminal Law and Criminology (Kriminalistföreningen i
Finland) was established 1934. A jubilee seminar was arranged in Helsinki in
April 2015 to celebrate the fact that 80 years have passed since its establishment.
The current article is an elaborated version of the paper the author presented at
the seminar.
The article examines the development of criminal law and policy in Finland
and the Nordic countries more generally from the beginning of the 20th century
to the present. This period is divided in several shorter units: the initial decades
of the 20th century; the 1930s; the wartime years of 1939-1945; the post-war pe-
riod to the 1950s; the emergence of Nordic concordance and the time of Nordic
prosperity until the end of 1990s (a period which gave rise to the internationally-
recognized concept of “Nordic exceptionalism”); the period of increasing crimi-
nal repression during the first decade of the 21st century; and finally the period
of decreasing incarceration which began in 2005.
The article focuses on an assessment of how progressive the Nordic criminal
and control policies can be considered in an international context. Have the Nor-
dic states been forerunners or stragglers? The answer remains unclear or, may-
be, “both and”, with different answers during different historical periods. |
| Del av verk: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab 2/2015 |