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DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS is a five-year project on criminal insanity and psychosis. The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway (SAMKUL).

 

Criminal law
Bilde av Linda Gröning

Seeking clarification of criminal law’s understanding of mental illness

Professor Linda Gröning at UiB is among the leading researchers in questions related to criminal responsibility and criminal insanity. She is concerned about discrimination and injustice in the legal system if it does not rely on updated knowledge about mental illness - and finds it urgent to...

Research article
Høyesterettsbygningen

Supreme Court Judgments on Criminal Responsibility: A Critical Review

A new article by Linda Gröning and Karl Heinrik Melle discusses the first judgments from the Norwegian Supreme Court on the rules of criminal responsibility after the law amendment in 2020.

VIDEO PRESENTATION
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Criminal responsibility and competence

Video presentation from Professor Stephen J. Morse’s guest lecture «Neurolaw: Perils and Promises».

Conference videos
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Norwegian Criminal Insanity Law

Video presentations from the DIMENSIONS conference on legal, philosophical and psychiatric perspectives on mental disorder and criminal justice.

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DIMENSIONS Remodelling criminal insanity and psychosis through the philosophical, legal, and medical dimensions of the medical model.

Research project at the Faculty of Law - University of Bergen