Academic interests
- penal enforcement and punishment
- rehabilitation and reintegration
- desistance
- narrative criminology
- young offenders
Pelle Medin is a PhD Research Fellow in the research project 'Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe' (RaRiE), which examines whether the ideals of rehabilitation and reintegration underpinning so-called progressive penal systems are realised in practice. The project is a collaborative research initiative involving the University of Glasgow, Leiden University, and the University of Oslo. It aims to produce a uniquely comprehensive, critical, and comparative analysis of the nature and impact of rehabilitation in the Netherlands, Norway, and Scotland. Furthermore, it seeks to reshape academic, policy, and practice debates about how rehabilitation should be defined and understood, and whether and how it should be further developed. The project is led by Professor Fergus McNeill at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow. The Norwegian component are led by Professor Thomas Ugelvik at the University of Oslo.
Background
Medin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology and a Master’s degree in Sociology of Law from the University of Oslo. In his master’s thesis, he examined the role of narratives about one’s own offending and understandings of personal identity in the desistance process among formerly persistent offenders.
Medin has extensive professional experience working with young people involved in the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Among other roles, he has worked at a secure residential child welfare institution and as an advisor with the Oslo Red Cross Network after Imprisonment, where he primarily supported young people with criminal convictions and people in prison through the processes of release and reintegration. Most recently, he worked as an advisor and youth coordinator at the National Norwegian Mediation Service, where he coordinated services across the criminal justice and welfare systems for juvenile offenders.