1. Punishment, Welfare and Prison History in Scandinavia; Peter Scharff Smith and Thomas Ugelvik.- 2. 'First We Build the Factory, then we Add the Institution'; Roddy Nilsson.- 3. Prisons of Labor; Victor Lund Shammas.- 4. The Rise of the Open Prisons and the Breakthrough of the Principle of Normalization in Denmark from the 1930s until Today; Peter Fransen.- 5. A Culture of Intervention; Robert Andersson.- 6. Punishment Without Conviction?; Peter Scharff Smith.- 7. Guarding, Guiding, Gate Opening; Terje Emil Fredwall.- 8. Treating Drug Abusers in Prison; Anders Bruhn, Odd Lindberg & Per Åke Nylander.- 9. Prison-drug Treatment as Welfare Service?; Torsten Kolind.- 10. The Development of Education in Norwegian Prisons; Torfinn Langelid.- 11. Exceptional Procedures?; Ingrid Lundeberg.- 12. Released to the ‘Battlefield’ of the Danish Welfare State; Annette Olesen.- 13. Scandinavian Acceptionalism?; Gerhard Ploeg.- 14. Normalisation in Nordic Prisons; Hans Jørgen Engbo.- 15. Prison Food in Denmark; Linda Kjær Minke and Amy Smoyer.- 16. Being a Woman in Mixed Gender Prisons; Charlotte Mathiassen.- 17. The Limits of the Welfare state; Thomas Ugelvik.- 18. In Search of Norwegian Penal Exceptionalism; Tom Vander Beken.- 19. The View from Elsewhere; Malcolm Langford, Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Aled Dilwyn Fisher.- 20. Negotiating Imperfect Humanity in the Danish Penal System; Keramet Reiter, Lori Sexton, and Jennifer Sumner.- 21. Punishment and Welfare in Scandinavia; Peter Scharff Smith and Thomas Ugelvik