The Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law has a world-wide reputation for excellence. Many of the academic staff are international leaders in their fields. Staff hail from multidisciplinary backgrounds and their interests cover a broad range of topics, providing ties to disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, the humanities and law.
The Department covers a wide array of subjects within our field of research:
• The effects of punishment
• Courts of law
• Prisons
• The police
• Child welfare
• Psychiatry
• Social welfare policy
• Discrimination against minorities
• Crime prevention
• Equality and justice
• Juridification
• The power of jurists in society
• The internationalization of law in various areas
• The rule of law and human rights
• Research into legal aid
Library services
The Department is also home to a library with literature on criminology and sociology of law, which is the most comprehensive collection in Scandinavia.