»Vis mig dine fanger .« – et indblik i Grønlands indsattepopulation

• Published in: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab
• Main Author: Lauritsen, Annemette Nyborg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dansk Kriminalistforening 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/NTfK/article/view/115040; https://doi.org/10.7146/ntfk.v104i2.115040

Greenland is expected to get its first closed institution for delinquents in 2018.With this, the idea of Greenland as “the country without prisons” will be history.Yet even before the first closed institution is built, Greenland already ranksamong the most punitive countries in Scandinavia with more than 200 inmatesper 100,000 population.The current article draws on studies of inmate records to produce a picture ofthe social characteristics of the Greenlandic prison population. In addition, it examineshow the Greenlandic welfare society has dealt with people before theywound up in institutions for delinquents.