• Comparing deep-end confinement in England & Wales and Norway 

      Crewe, Ben; Laursen, Julie; Mjåland, Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Extreme forms of custody represent the boundary points of state power. The configuration of the most restrictive corners of prison systems, and what goes on within them, is highly instructive in exposing the objectives, ...
    • Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway 

      Mjåland, Kristian; Laursen, Julie; Schliehe, Anna; Larmour, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Open prisons are portrayed as less harmful custodial institutions than closed prisons, and prison systems that rely more heavily on low security imprisonment are typically considered to have a more humane and less punitive ...
    • Nordic penal exceptionalism: A comparative, empirical analysis 

      Crewe, Ben; Ievins, Alice; Larmour, Simon; Laursen, Julie; Mjåland, Kristian; Schliehe, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Based on a survey administered in 13 prisons in England & Wales and Norway, as part of a research programme with explicitly comparative aims, this article seeks to address both the relative and absolute dimensions of the ...