Background
Per Ole Johansen received his ”magistergrad” in 1970, combining criminology with studies in sociology, political science and social economics. He then immersed himself in historical reseach on a number of projects relating to the history of crime and criminal justice. He has worked at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law since 1972. Johansen was apponted professor in 1996.
Teaching and tutoring
Johansen is responsible for courses on economic crime, organised crime, corruption and the Holocaust.
Special fields
Economic crime. Organised crime. Corruption. The Prohibition Era. The History of Policing. The History of Immigration. Antisemmitism and the Holocaust. The Trials in the Aftermath of WW2
Ongoing and planned research projects at Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law
Organsed crime in modern Norway, Corruption in local constituencies, Holocaust and the trials in the aftermath of WW2. Member of a Nordic research group on organised crime, and a Nordic research group focusing on economic crime.