Special fields
Leif Petter Olaussen has 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