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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.…