When Anders Behring Breivik was imprisoned a few days after the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011, it was a completely new situation for the Norwegian correctional service. Staff had to adapt to an “extraordinary critical situation” in which the core values of the correctional service were also threatened.
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Mareile Kaufmann is referred to as the creator of the research field Digital Criminology. New digital tools and methods lead to new questions. How much dataveillance should we allow?
Erik Nadheim has analysed documents from the government and the Norwegian Parliament from 1990 until today. In these he found broken political promises and a lack of interest in crime victims' legal security.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Putin. But is it possible to punish Putin for the misdeeds committed in Ukraine?
Sveinung Sandberg and his colleagues are conducting a research project on the role that family, employment, culture and the state play in criminal life-courses. 20 researchers have been conducting 1200 interviews involving prison inmates in Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia.
Through interviews with non-citizen women illegalized in Norway and Denmark, Dorina Damsa explores tensions concerning issues of citizenship, punishment and welfare.