Primary & Secondary Materials
Nordic Penal Codes
- Denmark: Straffeloven (in Danish)
- Administration of Justice Act (Retsplejeloven) (in Danish)
- Act on the Execution of Sentences (Straffuldbyrdelsesloven) (in Danish)
- Finland: The Penal Code of Finland (PDF)
- Iceland: General Penal Code
- Norway: The Penal Code
- General Civil Penal Code 1902 (PDF)
- Jørn Jacobsen & Vilde Hallgren Sandvik, An Outline of the New Norwegian Criminal Code, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2015)
- Criminal Procedure Act (PDF)
- Execution of Sentences Act
- Sweden: The Swedish Criminal Code (PDF)
Nordic Criminal Law and Its Development (Selected)
- Petter Asp, Nordic Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters (1998)
- Mikkel Jarle Christensen, Kjersti Lohne, Magnus Hörnqvist (eds.), Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion (2022)
- Ben Crewe et al., Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis, British Journal of Criminology (2023)
- Esko Häkkinen, Welfare State Development and Finnish Criminal Justice Reform from the 1910s to the 1960s (2022)
- Jørn Jacobsen, Power, Principle, and Progress: Kant and the Republican Philosophy of Nordic Criminal Law (2024)
- Kristiina Koivukari, The Role of the Nordic Approach to Criminal Law and Policy in the Inter-legal World of Law, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab (Nordic Journal of Criminal Science) (2022)
- Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, Penal Policies in the Nordic Countries 1960–2010, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention (2012)
- John Pratt Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess: Part I: The Nature and Roots of Scandinavian Exceptionalism, British Journal of Criminology (2008)
- Part II: Does Scandinavian Exceptionalism Have a Future?, British Journal of Criminology (2008)
- Annika Suominen, The Characteristics of Nordic Criminal Law in the Setting of EU Criminal Law, European Criminal Law Review (2011)
Nordic Perspectives on Criminal Law (Selected Topics)
- Yanique A. Andersson & Linda Gröning, Rehabilitation in Principle and Practice: Perspectives of Inmates and Officers, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2016)
- Katja Franko, On the Relevance of Citizenship in Criminal Law: Implications for Proportionality, Equality, and Justice, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2023)
- Kimmo Nuotio, Holocaust Denial as Memory Criminal Law Seen Through the Nordic Lenses, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2023)
- Per Ole Träskman, Purchase of a Sexual Service: A Lawful Private Delight or an Offence? A Study of Criminal Legislation in the Nordic Countries (2009) (PDF)
MCLR+ Events & Publications
- Nordic Criminal Law as a Normative Project: A Book Forum
- Panel Discussion (May 30, 2024) (live streamed on YouTube.com/@ModCrimLRev)
- MCLR+ Forum (Sept. 30, 2024)
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* All materials open access unless otherwise noted.