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John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism

John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and... 450 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 46(3) John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism. Routledge: New York, 2013; xii + 260 pp. ISBN 9780415524735, £90.00 (hbk) Reviewed by: James Oleson, University of Auckland, New Zealand With Contrasts in Punishment, John Pratt and Anna Eriksson have provided penologists, policy makers, and interested citizens with an important book. As mass incarceration (in the US and elsewhere) begins to collapse under its own financial weight, a greater understanding is sorely needed of why some nations seem to imprison large swaths of their population with harsh and extensive sentences while other countries appear to use imprisonment sparingly and beneficently. Building upon an influential series of John Pratt’s articles and drawing upon Anna Erikkson’s capabilities as both translator and international criminologist, Contrasts in Punishment sheds a much-needed light upon this urgent issue of public policy. In its extensive body of endnotes, the book quotes three well-known thinkers (p. 210, n4) to support the proposition that the prison operates as a lens through which we can understand the deeper workings of society: . Fyodor Dostoevsky: ‘The standards of a nation’s civilization can be judged http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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450 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 46(3) John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism. Routledge: New York, 2013; xii + 260 pp. ISBN 9780415524735, £90.00 (hbk) Reviewed by: James Oleson, University of Auckland, New Zealand With Contrasts in Punishment, John Pratt and Anna Eriksson have provided penologists, policy makers, and interested citizens with an important book. As mass incarceration (in the US and elsewhere) begins to collapse under its own financial weight, a greater understanding is sorely needed of why some nations seem to imprison large swaths of their population with harsh and extensive sentences while other countries appear to use imprisonment sparingly and beneficently. Building upon an influential series of John Pratt’s articles and drawing upon Anna Erikkson’s capabilities as both translator and international criminologist, Contrasts in Punishment sheds a much-needed light upon this urgent issue of public policy. In its extensive body of endnotes, the book quotes three well-known thinkers (p. 210, n4) to support the proposition that the prison operates as a lens through which we can understand the deeper workings of society: . Fyodor Dostoevsky: ‘The standards of a nation’s civilization can be judged

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Published: Dec 1, 2013

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