The Transnational Prisoner: Exploring Themes and Trends Involving a Prison Deal With the Netherlands and Norway

Pakes, Francis; Holt, Katrine

doi:10.1093/bjc/azv104

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“…Norgerhaven prison in the Netherlands was adapted to house Norwegian prisoners under a legal arrangement negotiated between the Netherlands and Norway in 2015 (see also Pakes & Holt, 2017). Norway had too many prisoners, and a growing 'queue'.…”

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Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison

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This article has three main purposes: (1) To describe an in-prison methodology for measuring the moral quality of life, developed organically out of experience and necessity. It is conducted over an intense but exceptionally brief period of time. (2) To reveal and reflect on our intellectual methodology: how do we describe, think, interpret and theorise about prison life in our work together, especially in a transnational team? (3) Finally, to consider the benefits and challenges of collaboration and intense immersion across national boundaries, in a study of Norgerhaven prison in the Netherlands. We found that our own implicit prison moralities varied significantly, as we worked together to describe a prison that surprised us, and our participants, hugely.

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Section: Norgerhaven Prisonmentioning

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“…The emphasis on dynamism and effectiveness does though help create the rhetorical space for measures like transferring prisoners to the Netherlands. Creating a sense of urgency is useful when proposing unusual solutions (Buzan et al., 1998) – like renting a prison in a foreign state (Pakes and Holt, 2017b).…”

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Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet

Todd-Kvam

2018

Punishment & Society

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Penality in Scandinavia has been seen as somewhat of an outlier, a redoubt against the punitive turn witnessed in other parts of Western Europe and the United States. This article examines contemporary discourses of penality in Norway following the entry into government of the populist-right Progress Party. The analysis describes how government representatives frame themselves as protecting individual security and prioritising victims whilst pursuing a bordered version of penal populism directed against non-citizens. These non-Norwegians are shown to be the focus of a range of penal populist policies, including fast-track justice, a warehousing prison regime, targeting of petty offenders and the double punishment of imprisonment and deportation. In a context where the penal welfare consensus with respect to Norwegian citizens remains relatively strong, it is easier for the Progress Party to 'do populism' by focusing on non-citizens.

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“…The typical length of confinement in the Netherlands is 3 months or less (71.4 percent), and those greater than a year are rare (7.9 percent for 2012 releases; WODC, 2017). During the period of the Prison Project, the incarceration rate was approximately 70 per 100,000—well below the peak of 134 in 2005 but considerably above the historic rate below 50 from the 1960s to early 1990s (Pakes & Holt, 2017; Tonry & Bijleveld, 2007). The Netherlands incarceration rate, although comparable with most European nations in the 2000s (Walmsley, 2016), is far less than in the United States where combined jail and prison rates have exceeded 500 per 100,000 since the 1990s (see Travis et al., 2014, Figure 2‐1).…”

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Confinement as a two‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?^*

Hickert¹,

Bushway

Nieuwbeerta

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Criminology

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Scholars frequently characterize incarceration as a possible turning point in criminal activity. This implies a two‐stage process: 1) change in life‐course mechanisms around confinement and reentry result in 2) subsequent change in criminal activity relative to preconfinement. Following this model, we examine change in criminal activity, criminal identity, and social/structural challenges using data from the Prison Project, a cohort of adult males with short‐term confinement in the Netherlands in 2010–2011. Results of a novel test for within‐individual change in arrests from preconfinement to post‐reentry show that most individuals are stable—yet there is a substantial group who go down meaningfully and a much smaller group who go up. Even though changes in criminal identity from the intervening period do not predict these change groups, increases in social/structural challenges predict those who go up in criminal activity. We build from prior work on desistance and reentry, contrasting our findings and highlighting the unique insight gained from, as well as challenges of, measuring individual change within our two‐stage turning point model. Although life‐course mechanisms often correspond with changes in criminal activity concurrently, identifying individual changes that are predictors of subsequent shifts in criminal offending remains elusive.

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The Transnational Prisoner: Exploring Themes and Trends Involving a Prison Deal With the Netherlands and Norway

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison

Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison

Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet

Confinement as a two‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?^*

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The Transnational Prisoner: Exploring Themes and Trends Involving a Prison Deal With the Netherlands and Norway

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Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison

Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison

Bordered penal populism: When populism and Scandinavian exceptionalism meet

Confinement as a two‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?*

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