Best Article Prize
2024
Winner: Trends in firearm homicide in 23 European countries – is Sweden an outlier?
Klara Hradilova Selin, Katharina Krüsselmann, Karoliina Suonpää and David Shannon
https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.25.1.4
Runner up: To Refer or Not to Refer? Police Discretion and Morality in the Danish Victim-Offender Mediation Programme
Clara R. Sandbye, Søren R. B. Christensen, Sif A. I. Mogensen, Christian Gade and Sarah van Mastrigt
https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.25.1.1
Runner up: Comparing youth and adult homicide victimization in Finland 2002–2018: A latent class approach
Janne Kivivuori, Maiju Tanskanen, Karoliina Suonpää and Anna Raeste
https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.25.1.7
Previous winners and nominees
2023
Winner: Emelí Lönnqvist, Prisoners of process: The development of remand prisoner rates in the Nordic countries: https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.24.2.1
Interview: Emelí Lönnqvist winner of NJC Best Article Prize 2023
Runner up: Thomas Friis Søgaard & Marie Højlund Bræmer, Law-abiding criminals: Young adults’ drift into and out of recreational drug sales: https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.24.1.2
Runner up: Anja Emilie Kruse, Hannah Helseth, & Sibel Korkmaz, Callous Lovers and Frightening Victims: How emotional contradictions affect young people’s navigation of sexually abusive relationships: https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.24.1.6
2022
Winner: Thomas Ugelvik, Three burglars, a friendly police inspector, and a vegetarian fox: Scandinavian exceptionalism, children’s literature, and desistance-conducive cultures
Interview: Thomas Ugelvik winner of NJC Best Article Prize 2022.
Runner up: Janika Lindström & Timo Toikko, Survival stories as access to society. People with history of a crime as experts by experience
Runner up: Sarah Pritchett & Kim Moeller, Can social bonds and social learning theories help explain radical violent extremism?
2021
Winner: Hansen, Stefansen & Skilbrei, Non-reporting of sexual violence as action: acts, selves, futures in the making
Runner Up: O. Bäckman, Estrada, Nilsson & Sivertsson, Criminal convictions and immigrant background 1973–2017 in Sweden – have differences increased or declined?
Runner Up: C. Weir, Incarcerated women’s cooking and eating practices in a ‘humane’ Danish open prison
2020
Winner: Susanne Boethius & Malin Åkerström, Revealing hidden realities: disclosing domestic abuse to informal others
Runner up: Mie Birk Haller, Torsten Kolind, Geoffrey Hunt & Thomas Friis Søgaard, Experiencing police violence and insults: narratives from ethnic minority men in Denmark
Runner up: Francis Pakes, Old-fashioned Nordic penal exceptionalism: the case of Iceland’s open prisons
2019
Winner: Synøve Nygaard Andersen, Partners in crime? Post-release recidivism among solo and co-offenders in Norway
Runner up: Lucas Gottzén, Violent men’s paths to batterer intervention programmes: masculinity, turning points and narrative selves
Runner up: Sanna Hautala, Pekka Hakkarainen, Kristiina Kuussaari, Kati Kataja & Sanna Kailanto, Violence as a part of the drug scene
2018
Winner: Klara Hermansson, The role of symbolic politics in exceptional crime policy debate: a study of the 2014 Swedish general election