Nordic Research Council for Criminology

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

The exploitation of migrant workers in the Nordics While the Nordic countries are well-known for their equality, welfare systems, and good working conditions based on collective agreements, migrant workers are nonetheless exploited in these countries in fields that include construction, hospitality service, logistics, transportation, horticulture, agriculture and more. Researchers have studied labour exploitation as different…

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the NJC Best Article Prize 2022 is Thomas Ugelvik with his article “Three burglars, a friendly police inspector, and a vegetarian fox: Scandinavian exceptionalism, children’s literature, and desistance-conducive cultures”. The article was published in Nordic Journal of Criminology last year. The prize recognises excellent research and…

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

Helena Huhta from Finland replaces Natalia Ollus and Anna-Karin Ivert from Sweden replaces Caroline Mellgren. Helena Huhta is a Finnish sociologist and criminologist, who studied in her ethnographic PhD the changing meanings of ethnicity in the prison everyday life. Along with her thesis, Helena has studied various other topics using diverse qualitative methods while working…

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) provides financial support for conference related travel and study trips abroad. The activities NSfK support via the travel grants can include: participation in conferences in a foreign country participation in academic courses in a foreign university (available only for PhD students) research stay periods at a foreign university…

Content News from the secretariat Seminar, conferences, podcast, etc. News from the Nordic countries Publications Reports Statistics Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk Oxlund Faroe Islands: Daisy J Iversen Finland: Emma Villman Greenland: Sara Kirstine Jakobsen Iceland: Jónas Orri Jónasson Norway: Marina Hiller Foshaugen Sweden: Lisa Flower If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact…

From next year the Nordic Journal of Criminology (NJC) will be published by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) – Nordic Journal of Criminology is the flagship of NSfK, says Heidi Mork Lomell, NSfK Chair. The journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research articles in the field of criminology and crime prevention. The journal provides…

In November, Nordic PhD students in Criminology met in Lund for two days of networking and knowledge exchange.  The NSfK funded seminar served as a meeting platform for early career researchers in the Nordic countries as well as an arena where criminological research could be further developed. The participating PhD students gave a presentation of…