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  • Seven Nordic research projects and working groups awarded funding

    The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) has awarded grants for criminological research to provide new insights into a variety of topics, including drug wholesaling, responses to hate crime, sentiments on crime and punishment in the Nordics, restorative justice, prevention of child sexual offences, and more.

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  • Newsletter – March 2024

    Content Contact Secretaries Denmark: Helena Birk OxlundFaroe Islands: Daisy J. IversenFinland: Emma VillmanGreenland: Sara Kirstine JakobsenIceland: Jónas Orri JónassonNorway: Marina Hiller FoshaugenSweden: Emelí Lönnqvist If you have any questions or comments about NSfKs activities, please contact the Chair or the secretariat. The contact secretaries are responsible for the national contributions.To include anything to the Newsletter, please send an email to the contact secretary in your…

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  • Emelí Lönnqvist winner of NJC Best Article Prize 2023

    We are pleased to announce that the winner of the NJC Best Article Prize 2023 is Emelí Lönnqvist with her article “Prisoners of process: The development of remand prisoner rates in the Nordic countries”. The article was published in Nordic Journal of Criminology last year. The prize recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with…

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  • Newsletter – February 2024

    NJC Best Article Prize 2023. Three articles have been nominated for the NJC Best Article Prize 2023: “Law-abiding criminals: Young adults’ drift into and out of recreational drug sales” by Thomas Friis Søgaard and Marie Højlund Bræmer; “Callous Lovers and Frightening Victims: How emotional contradictions affect young people’s navigation of sexually abusive relationships” by Anja Emilie Kruse,…

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  • Dansk kontaktsekretær for Nordisk Samarbejdsråd for Kriminologi (NSfK) søges

    Det drejer sig om en mindre deltidsstilling, der pt. honoreres med € 1440 årligt, hvorfor den godt kan passes ved siden af en fuld stilling. En nærmere beskrivelse af stillingens indhold følger nedenunder.  Vi ønsker en person, som interesserer sig bredt for det kriminologiske område, og som er god til skriftlig kommunikation. Hvis dette kunne…

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  • Nominees for the NJC Best Article Prize 2023

    We are pleased to announce the three nominees for the Nordic Journal of Criminology Best Article Prize 2023.

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  • Newsletter – January 2024

    Nordic Youths’ Involvement in Street Gangs – Markus Kaakinen has headed an NSfK-funded study on youth street gang connections, resulting in a new policy brief. NSfK travel grants are awarded three times per year. The next application deadline is 16 February.

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  • Nordic Youths’ Involvement in Street Gangs

    A new study shows that preventive measures should be targeted especially at criminally active young people as early as possible. The low importance of social marginalization may indicate that the gang-like behavior patterns of young people in the Nordic countries have spread beyond the original disadvantaged communities and areas. Markus Kaakinen (University of Helsinki) has…

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  • Call for presentations to The Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2024

    Each year in June, the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) organize the Stockholm Criminology Symposium, which takes place in central Stockholm and usually features approximately 180 speakers who present their research and share their experiences in more than 60 sessions. The event is organized in conjunction with the award ceremony of the Stockholm…

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  • US and Nordic prisons – not so different as they seem?

    How do Scandinavian methods work in a prison in Pennsylvania? What works and what does not work when you try to design a prison unit based on practices and experiences of Nordic prisons in a US context? By Synøve Nygaard Andersen.

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