Increasing Salience of Crime Control in Finnish Parliamentary Data from the 1970s to the 2000s

In Finland, a post-war expansion of the welfare state was associated with a decline in the use of imprisonment. The 1990s marked the beginning of a more ambivalent era in Finnish criminal justice. How does this turning point appear in the public discourse on crime by political decision-makers? All p...

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Main Author: Esko Häkkinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bergen 2019-02-01
Series:Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Online Access:https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/2722