Norwegian professor and author
Ragnhild Sollund is a Norwegian professor and author. She is professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo. Sollund has published widely in the area of migration, violence, police racial profiling and green criminology particularly relating to wildlife conservation. She is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of green criminology, which studies the relationship between nature and society in a eco-global perspective, as well as the harms and crimes humans cause the natural environment and nonhuman animals.
Career.
From 2019, Sollund has led the research project, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. She has been a guest lecturer at several universities, including the University of Havana and the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (Mexico). She was a partner in the EFFACE project and has also been involved in other commissioned research for the European Union concerning environmental crime, including wildlife crime.
Awards.
Sollund received The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice in 2021. She is also a recipient of the Energy Globe Award, Norway for her research on the illegal wildlife trade, and her book "Green harms and crimes". "Critical criminology in a changing world" (published at Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan in 2015), was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.
Bibliography (selected).
Sollund has published about 80 academic papers for various international journals and edited collections. Her research has contributed to several art exhibitions and performances.
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