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This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The cha
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In the growing field of comparative criminal justice, the Nordic countries are regularly used as exceptions to the global move towards growing rates of imprison
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Color that Matters
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This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official d