Ragnhild Sollund

Ragnhild Sollund
Born
Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund

Bærum, Norway
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
OccupationsProfessor of criminology, author
EmployerUniversity of Oslo
Known forGreen criminology, Wildlife crime, Animal rights
Notable workGreen Harms and Crimes (2015); Bare et dyr? (2021); Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene (2024)

Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund is a Norwegian criminologist and professor at the University of Oslo known for her research in green criminology, wildlife crime, and animal rights within criminological frameworks. Her work explores the intersections of species justice, environmental harm, and law enforcement, contributing to the development of ecological and critical criminology.[1][2]

Early life and education

Sollund was born in Bærum, Norway. She studied at the University of Oslo, where she obtained her Cand.polit. degree in criminology in 1994 and her Dr.polit. degree in 2003 with a dissertation titled Immigrant women's occupational mobility. Her doctoral work examined structural barriers to immigrant women's professional advancement in Norway.

Academic career

Sollund has been affiliated with the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo since the 1990s. She was appointed Professor of Criminology in 2010 and served as Assistant Director of the department from 2010 to 2013.[3] From 2008 to 2010 she was Research Professor at the Norwegian Social Research institute (NOVA), where she had previously worked as a Senior Researcher. Her research at NOVA and the Institute for Social Research (ISF) focused on migration, racial profiling, and gender in law enforcement.

She is recognised internationally as a leading scholar in green criminology, with work addressing environmental harm, wildlife trafficking, and animal victimisation. Sollund has led several major research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway, including CRIMEANTHROP (Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene).[4] 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 contributed to commissioned research for the European Union concerning environmental crime, including wildlife crime.[5]

Research

Her early publications addressed gender and immigration, including occupational mobility and ethnic minorities’ relations with the police. Later work increasingly focused on environmental and species justice, examining law enforcement of wildlife trade, ecological harm, and anthropocentrism.[6]

Sollund’s research has been widely cited in discussions of speciesism, ecofeminism, and environmental justice. Her scholarship bridges critical criminology and environmental ethics, analysing human–animal relations as social and legal issues.

Bibliography (selected)

  • 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.)).[7]
  • 2015: Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminology in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan.[8]
  • 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.)).[9]
  • 2019: The crimes of wildlife trafficking. Issues of justice, legality and morality. Routledge.[10]
  • 2021: Bare et dyr? Solum bokvennen.[11][12] 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.)).[13]
  • 2024: Ragnhild Sollund and Martine S. B. Lie, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press.
  • 2025: Ragnhild Sollund, Wildlife Trade and Animal Victimization. Parallell Harms and Crimes, Routledge.

Sollund has published about 100 academic papers for various international journals and edited collections. Her research has contributed to several art exhibitions and performances.[14]

Editorial and professional roles

Sollund has served on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals, including Critical Criminology,[15] International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy,[16] Justice, Power and Resistance, Fiat Justisia, Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, and Politics and Animals.[17]

Awards and recognition

References

  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. ^ "Ragnhild Sollund". University of Oslo.
  4. ^ "Dyrenes bedrøvelige liv". Forskerforum (in Norwegian Bokmål). 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ ""Environmental Criminality in Developing Countries", Ragnhild Sollund and Tanya Wyatt". TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association. TEPSA. 9 August 2022.
  6. ^ "To Curb Smuggling, Norway Has Been Killing Confiscated Wildlife". Undark Magazine. 12 April 2022.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "The Crimes Of Wildlife Trafficking: Issues Of Justice, Legality And Morality". Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews. 6 December 2020.
  11. ^ Kosberg, Norunn (19 January 2022). "Bokanmeldelse: Viktig og omfattende verk om hvordan vi behandler dyr". Fri tanke (in Norwegian).
  12. ^ "Grundig bok om utnyttelsen av dyr". Harvest Magazine (in Norwegian Bokmål).
  13. ^ Rego de Oliveira, Cristina (March 2023). "Introdução à Criminologia verde: Perspectivas Críticas, Descoloniais e do Sul [Introduction to Green Criminology: Critical, Decolonial and Southern Perspectives] by M.D. Budó, D.R. Goyes, L. Natali, R.A. Sollund and A. Brisman (eds) (2022)". Justice, Power and Resistance. 6 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1332/BDUP3407.
  14. ^ "Mennesker og andre dyr – Makt, protest, endring". Oslo Art Guide. 14 November 2017.
  15. ^ "Critical Criminology". SpringerLink.
  16. ^ "International Editorial Board". Crimejusticejournal.com. 23 October 2025.
  17. ^ "Editorial Team | Politics and Animals". journals.lub.lu.se.
  18. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice.
  19. ^ Sollund, Ragnhild Aslaug, ed. (2015). Green Harms and Crimes. doi:10.1057/9781137456267. ISBN 978-1-349-68747-3.
  20. ^ "Dr. Ragnhild Sollund Wins Energy Globe Award". EFFACE.
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