@inbook{cf596810d4d111de93d4000ea68e967b,
title = "Ideologies and Realities in Prison Law: Some Trends",
abstract = "For a long period prisoners were in a kind of law-exempted space. It is only in more recent times they have received rights comparable to the human rights citizens enjoy outside prisons. This article reviews the characteristics and developments of legislations in the Nordic countries, England, Germany and U.S.A. It is noted that legislation in all these countries has moved toward principles of the {\textquoteleft}Rechtsstaat{\textquoteright}. However, it is also shown that today is marked by a reverse trend, which has led to – and will lead to – abandonment of achieved rights. {\textquoteleft}Rechtsstaat{\textquoteright}-principles have not been replaced by principles of {\textquoteleft}welfare state{\textquoteright} ideologies, but mainly by pure retribution or punitiveness.",
keywords = "Strafferet, F{\ae}ngsler, Retspolitik",
author = "Vagn Greve and Annika Snare",
year = "2009",
month = sep,
language = "English",
isbn = "9789185142682",
series = "Scandinavian Studies in Law",
publisher = "Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law",
pages = "307--332",
editor = "Peter Wahlgren",
booktitle = "Criminal Law",
}