Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe seminar

Vanessa Barker from Stockholm University will give a lecture on "Nordic Exceptionalism Revisited: Reflections on Democracy, Membership & Penal Order", followed by a plenary discussion.

Vanessa Barker. Photo: private

Barker is Docent and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University.  She has published on democracy and punishment, the public sphere and prison, democracy and deportation, and the welfare state and comparative penal sanctioning.

She is the author of The Politics of Punishment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders (Oxford University Press, 2009) and working on a new book about states, borders and penal order in Europe.

 

The seminar is open to all.

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Published June 16, 2016 9:38 AM - Last modified June 21, 2016 12:59 PM