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Punishment in Sweden: A Changing Penal Landscape

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Punishment in Europe

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Europe has abolished the death penalty. Imprisonment has thereby become the most severe available sanction. The level of, and trends in, imprisonment are also often used as a simple way of describing penal control, although it should be noted that fines have always been the dominant penal sanction in Sweden.

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    Vincenzo Ruggiero (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

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    Mick Ryan (Emeritus Professor, Law and Criminology) (Emeritus Professor, Law and Criminology)

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von Hofer, H., Tham, H. (2013). Punishment in Sweden: A Changing Penal Landscape. In: Ruggiero, V., Ryan, M. (eds) Punishment in Europe. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137028211_3

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