Punishing Inequality: Notes on Social Worth from Sweden
Punishing Inequality: Notes on Social Worth from Sweden
This chapter revisits key concepts of equality, inequality and punishment in the Nordic context. By reexamining who and what the welfare state is for, and who and what punishment is for, it questions the presumed universality of equality in the Nordic context. Instead, it will argue that equality is conditional. It is conditional upon a hierarchy of social worth, with negative implications for punishment. This chapter draws our attention to a new form penal power –penal nationalism– in which penal power is used to uphold national interests, in this case, welfare state preservation and equality for insiders, at the expense of inequality for outsiders.
Keywords: Inequality, Penal nationalism, Welfare state, Nordic, Punishment
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