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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The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSFK) is looking forward to once again organising a Nordic PhD seminar, this time hosted at the University of Oslo. Following the resounding success of the event in Lund in 2022, this year’s seminar will bring together an astonishing 40 PhD fellows from across the Nordic region on 9-10…

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The Nordic Research Council for Criminology has taken a monumental step towards promoting accessibility and knowledge sharing of Nordic criminology by making 24 years of back issues of our journal open access. This move comes as a part of Nordic Journal of Criminology’s transition to the Scandinavian University Press.

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By Riikka Kostiainen The annual seminar of the Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) was held in Hämeenlinna in May. The overarching theme of the seminar was the future of punishment, and the range of perspectives on the topic was comprehensive. Dozens of presentations were mainly divided into three simultaneous working groups. The three-day seminar…

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Emeli Lönnqvist is a PhD fellow at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University. She has a master’s degree in criminology and has previously worked at the research unit at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. In her dissertation, Lönnqvist studies the Swedish remand prison institution with a particular focus on the treatment of remand prisoners…

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The Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) has awarded grants for criminological research to provide new insights into a variety of topics: street crime, crime statistics, citizenship, Nordic penal practice, punishment, sexual violence and more. This year NSfK received 3 applications for a joint Nordic project, 10 applications for individual research projects, 6 applications for…

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The first issue of Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab (NTfK) in 2023 is now available at tidsskrift.dk. It is the journal’s 110th volume! Here is the editor’s editorial (in Danish): Kære læser NTfK ønsker godt nytår med tre artikler og to essays, der tilsammen demonstrerer tidsskriftets enorme bredde. Den første artikel er skrevet af Ragnheidur Bragadottir.…

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NSfK behöver en ny nationell kontaktsekreterare och söker dig som är insatt i – och brett intresserad av – kriminologi, samt bra på att hitta praktiska lösningar och på att kommunicera skriftligt. Uppdraget påbörjas i juni 2023 och varar till september 2025. Kontaktsekreterarna har i uppdrag att upprätthålla kontakten mellan NSfK och de nationella kriminologiska…

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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…

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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…

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