Leif Petter Olaussen

Special fields

I have worked on a broad variety of topics within the field of Criminology and Sociology of Law such as:

• Trends in reported crime and the use of punishment
• Crime statistics – historical changes in data gathering, problems of validity and reliability
  as indicator for crime trends
• Crime victimization and tendency to report crimes to the police
• Fear of crime - and connection to crime victimization, and psychic health problems
• Relationships between violence and use of alcohol
• The Police Service’s ability to clear up crime
• Crime victimization and victim’s trust in the Police
• People’s confidence in the judiciary – and if participation of lay judges contributes to
  people’s confidence in the judiciary
• Does an increase of police manpower lead to crime reduction?
• Public attitudes to punishment
• The ontology and epistemology of criminological and sociology of law research