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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I'd be very interested to know the effectiveness of the Norwegian system in practice. Have there been any studies that looked into the rates of criminal recidivism amongst Norwegian parolees compared to other Western democracies?
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Impossible to compare really as the countries demographics are different from most western democracies.
Crime will always be lower in mostly rural ethnically (and culturally) homogeneous areas, particularly in a well off country with little poverty .