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This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the authors compare these cases with legal aid in Europe and the US to examine whether a single, unique Nordic model exists. Contextualizing Nordic legal aid in relation to welfare ideology and human rights, Hammerslev and Halvorsen Rønning consider whether flaws in the welfare state exist, and how legal aid affects disadvantaged citizens.    Concluding that the five countries all have very different legal aid schemes, the authors explore an important general trend: welfare states increasingly outsourcing legal aid to the market and the third sector through both membership organizations and smaller voluntary organizations. A methodical and compas sionate text, this book will be of special interest to scholars and students of the criminal justice, the welfare state, and the legal aid system.

Criminal law. --- Crime --- Corrections. --- Punishment. --- Welfare state. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice. --- Prison and Punishment. --- Crime and Society. --- Criminal Law. --- Criminal Justice. --- Politics of the Welfare State. --- State, Welfare --- Penalties (Criminal law) --- Penology --- Correctional services --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Crimes and misdemeanors --- Criminals --- Law, Criminal --- Penal codes --- Penal law --- Sociological aspects. --- Sociological aspects --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Corrections --- Impunity --- Retribution --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Sociology --- Pleas of the crown --- Public law --- Criminal procedure --- Crime—Sociological aspects. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. --- Administration of criminal justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Socio-legal studies --- Law --- Criminal justice --- Action research --- Scandinavia --- Welfare state --- Norway --- Demark --- Finland --- Sweden --- Iceland