Theory in Practice: Risks and Responses in the Modern Criminal Law

• Finansiering: Norges forskningsråd ved FRISAM
• Prosjektledere: 
• Post doktor Linda Gröning og
• Post doktor Jørn RT Jacobsen

Prosjektet startar opp i 2011. Prosjektet vil verte samansett av to stillingar, ei phd-stilling som skal diskutere fareomgrepet i strafferetten og ei postdok-stilling som skal diskutere straffutmåling. Stillingane vert lyst ut i løpet av våren/sommaren 2011.

Omtale av prosjektet henta frå prosjektsøknaden:

Among the most important current societal changes are the internationalisation of society and the development of a 'risk-society'. These changes have great impact on the development of the criminal law.

The two projects (one post.doc.-project and one ph.d .-project) shall analyse different dimensions of the criminal law where these societal changes makes impact.

The first project concerns the concept of danger and its role in the development of contemporary criminal law. The project seeks conceptual clarity as a resource for attempts at dealing with contemporary risks by means of the criminal law.

The second project concerns the principles of choice of penal level and sentencing in Norwegian criminal law. This project seeks, first, to discuss possible principles guiding the choice of penal level and, secondly, to discuss the principles of sentencing, both in its institutional and substantial aspects. This project is of importance in view of the fact that higher level of repression is a central response to the mentioned contemporary societal challenges.