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The Scandinavian Prison Study (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology) by Stanton Wheeler; Hugh F. Cline; David J. Armor is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries. At the time, it was the largest comparative study of prisons and inmate behavior ever undertaken and despite 15 years of analysis and write-up it was never published but it influenced many other important prison studies that followed. This book eng
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- Author
- Stanton Wheeler; Hugh F. Cline; David J. Armor
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030264611
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Science, Penology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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