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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
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Advancing knowledge about criminal justice and mental health

Linda Gröning has written an easy-to-read article in Open Access Government about how children and persons with mental disorders are approached within criminal law.
ERC Consolidator Grant
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Seeking clarification of criminal law’s understanding of mental illness

Professor Linda Gröning at UiB receives a prestigious grant from the European Research Council to explore the connection between mental illness and criminal responsibility.

Research article
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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 is connected to the Research group on Criminal Justice and Mental Health at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.