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Continuity and Change
New continuity and change research from Umea University discussed
October 18th, 2008
According to a study from Umea, Sweden, "Little is known about the lives of criminal offenders prior to their incarceration in past time. Knowing the background of offenders, however, may explain why they broke the law." "This article explores young offenders in the Sundsvall region of Swedan, 400 kilometres north of Stockholm, an area with a booming sawmill-based region economy in nineteenth-century Sweden. First, using prison registers, large-scale structural concepts are employed to explain the increasing number of incarcerations of young people reported during the period 1840-1880. Second, to uncover the offenders' demographic backgrounds and their socio-economic...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-10-18)
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