The Scandinavian Prison Study

by Stanton Wheeler and Hugh F Cline

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030264645
• ISBN13: 9783030264642
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"