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  • Key note May-Len Skilbrei on sexual violence as a gender equality paradox

    May-Len Skilbrei, professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Oslo University key note on The continued existence of sexual violence as a gender equality paradox for the NSfK research seminar 2021 is published on YouTube. During week 15, key note by Stina Holmberg, researcher at the National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) in Stockholm and associate professor…

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  • NSfK Seminar on Media and Crime Prevention

    Media and Crime Prevention was the theme for the contact seminar arranged by Finnish NSfK Council member Minna Piispa in December 2020. Some 40 Nordic researchers, policy makers and representatives from press and crime prevention councils and organizations attended the digital seminar. Summaries of the key notes´ presentations  Ester Pollack, Professor, Stockholm University: Crime Journalism and Crime…

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  • NTfK is online!

    From 2021 the journal Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab (NTfK) is published online only and is immediate Open Access. This first online issue is a Special Issue on Frihedsberøvelse og frihedsberøvede with 14 articles and 3 essays – all contributions by Nordic researchers. Click here to read the issue at the platform tidsskrift.dk.  This platform is…

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  • 23 mars – Nordens Dag

    23 March is Nordens Dag Interesting webinars and digital discussions to follow today arranged by ia Nordisk Ministerråd og Nordisk Råd Five webinars to follow online via the organization´s Facebook: 12:00 CET Hur kan de nordiska länderna skapa trygghet på nätet? 13:00 CET Covid19 sætter tilliden og mobiliteten under pres 14:00 CET Hur ska vi…

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  • New post at the Nordic Criminology Blog

    A call for a Global Nordic Criminology! Nordic Criminologists must face the challenge of creating a more global Nordic criminology, writes Sveinung Sandberg, professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo.  

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  • NSfK Research grants awarded in 2021

    This year a co-Nordic project, three individual research projects and two Nordic working groups were awarded a total of almost SEK 3 million. Co-Nordic project Project leader Markus Kaakinen, post doc (FIN), Nordic researchteam Ph.D. Moeller Kim, PhD (SE and DK), Klement Christian Assistant (DK), Westfelt Lars, PhD (SE), Rostami Amir PhD (SE), Valdimarsdót Margrét,…

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  • Stipend_Ulla V Bondesons stiftelse for retssociologisk og kriminologisk forskning

    Ulla V Bondesons stiftelse for retssociologisk og kriminologisk forskning UDDELING AF STIPENDIER I 2021 Fondet er stiftet af professor Ulla V Bondeson, og det har som sit hovedformål at fremme retssociologisk og kriminologisk forskning i Norden, herunder især forskning ved universiteterne i Stockholm, Lund og København. Første prioritet gives til behandlingsforskning, dvs. studier af effekten…

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  • Introducing the Nordic Criminology Blog

    “Do you have a blog?” By Editor of NJC, Anita Heber, Associate Professor at Department of Criminology, Stockholm University About one year ago, Dr Kjersti Lohne at Oslo University asked us this question. At that time, we were busy editing the Nordic Journal of Criminology (NJC), and heading the Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK),…

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  • New: Nordic Criminology Blog

    Our aim with the blog is to offer a platform for engaging with Nordic criminology and to encourage discussions on topics including – but not limited to – new empirical research, contemporary criminal policy, and advances in criminological theory. We are happy to launch a new Nordic Criminology Blog – and invite you to participate! Have…

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  • Interview: Winners of NJC Best Article Prize 2020

    Susanne Boethius, PhD, researcher and Malin Åkerström, professor, Department of Sociology, Lund University are the authors of the award winning article “Revealing hidden realities: Disclosing domestic abuse to informal others” published (OA) in Nordic Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, 2020 , pp 186-202. Congratulations! How does it feel to win this award? Thank you very…

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