Prisoners of process: The development of remand prisoner rates in the Nordic countries was published last year in the Nordic Journal of Criminology and is nominated for the NJC Best Article Prize 2023! 

Emeli Lönnqvist, PhD student at the Department. Her research targets the Swedish remand prison institution and regime from a sociological, historical and comparative perspective. Photo: Maud Hol.

The prize recognises excellent research and scholarship that engages with current and emerging issues in Nordic criminology. 

Following the publication of the final issue of the year, the editor prepares a short-list of nominations. Members of the Nordic Journal of Criminology Editorial Board and the Board of the Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) have the right to vote for one of the articles on the short-list. The prize is awarded to the article with most votes. The prize winner is invited to present the award winning article at the NSfK Research Seminar, held in May each year.

The other two nominated articles are written by Friis Søgaard & Højlund Bræmer and Kruse, Helseth & Korkmaz. The winner will be presented in March.