Ragnhild Sollund

Norwegian professor and author

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Ragnhild Sollund is a Norwegian professor and author. She is professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo.[1] Sollund has published widely in the area of migration, violence, police racial profiling and green criminology particularly relating to wildlife conservation. She is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of green criminology, which studies the relationship between nature and society in a eco-global perspective, as well as the harms and crimes humans cause the natural environment and nonhuman animals.[2]

## Career

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From 2019, Sollund has led the research project, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene.[3] She has been a guest lecturer at several universities, including the University of Havana and the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (Mexico). She was a partner in the EFFACE project and has also been involved in other commissioned research for the European Union concerning environmental crime, including wildlife crime.[4]

## Awards

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Sollund received The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice in 2021.[5] She is also a recipient of the Energy Globe Award, Norway for her research on the illegal wildlife trade,[6] and her book Green harms and crimes.[7] Critical criminology in a changing world (published at Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan in 2015), was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.[8]

## Bibliography (selected)

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* 2012: Transnational migration, gender and rights. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
* 2012: Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary problems and Future Challenges. London: Ashgate. (together with Rune Ellefsen & Guri Larsen (eds.)).[9]
* 2015: Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminology in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan.[10]
* 2016: Fighting Environmental Crime in Europe and Beyond. The Role of the EU and Its Member States, London: Palgrave (with Christoph Stefes & Anna Rita Germani (eds.)).[11]
* 2019: The crimes of wildlife trafficking. Issues of justice, legality and morality. Routledge.[12]
* 2021: Bare et dyr? Solum bokvennen.[13][14] Translated into Spanish as Solo un animal? in 2023
* 2022: Introdução à criminologia verde. Sao Paulo: Tirant lo Blanch Brasil.] (together with M.D. Budó, D. R. Goyes, A. Brisman, L. Natali (eds.)).
* 2024: Ragnhild Sollund and Martine S. B. Lie, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press.

Sollund has published about 80 academic papers for various international journals and edited collections. Her research has contributed to several art exhibitions and performances.[15]

## References

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1. ^ "Ragnhild Sollund". University of Oslo.
2. ^ "Då Ragnhild Sollund begynte å forske på dyrs rettar, slutta ho å ete kjøt". Forskerforum.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 13 January 2022.
3. ^ "Dyrenes bedrøvelige liv". Forskerforum (in Norwegian Bokmål). 21 June 2021.
4. ^ ""Environmental Criminality in Developing Countries", Ragnhild Sollund and Tanya Wyatt -". TEPSA. 9 August 2022.
5. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice.
6. ^ "To Curb Smuggling, Norway Has Been Killing Confiscated Wildlife". Undark Magazine. 12 April 2022.
7. ^ "Dr. Ragnhild Sollund Wins Energy Globe Award". EFFACE.
8. ^ Sollund, Ragnhild Aslaug, ed. (2015). Green Harms and Crimes. doi:10.1057/9781137456267. ISBN 978-1-349-68747-3.
9. ^ Woolley, Olivia (August 2013). "Book Review: Eco-Global Crimes: Contemporary Problems and Future Challenges". Environmental Law Review. 15 (3): 266–267. Bibcode:2013EnvLR..15..266W. doi:10.1350/enlr.2013.15.3.192. ISSN 1461-4529.
10. ^ Nurse, Angus (2016). "Review of Green Harms and Crimes: Critical Criminology in a Changing World". State Crime Journal. 5 (1): 193–196. doi:10.13169/statecrime.5.1.0193. ISSN 2046-6056. JSTOR 10.13169/statecrime.5.1.0193.
11. ^ McClanahan, Bill (September 2018). "Thinking and Doing Green Criminology: Damien Short: Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide, Zed Books, London, 2016, 272 pp, ISBN: 978-1-84277-931-6 Ragnhild Sollund, Christoph H. Stefes and Ann Rita Germani (eds): Fighting Environmental Crime in Europe and Beyond: The Role of the EU and Its Member States, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, 256 pp, ISBN: 978-1-349-95084-3". Critical Criminology. 26 (3): 443–446. doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9395-x.
12. ^ "The Crimes Of Wildlife Trafficking: Issues Of Justice, Legality And Morality". Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews. 6 December 2020.
13. ^ Kosberg, Norunn (19 January 2022). "Bokanmeldelse: Viktig og omfattende verk om hvordan vi behandler dyr". Fri tanke (in Norwegian).
14. ^ "Grundig bok om utnyttelsen av dyr". Harvest Magazine (in Norwegian Bokmål).
15. ^ "Mennesker og andre dyr – Makt, protest, endring". Oslo Art Guide. 14 November 2017.

## External links

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* Ragnhild Sollund publications indexed by Google Scholar

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