Research groups
- Research Group for Crime, Responsibility and Security
- Research group for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Short info
and CHILDCRIM.
Research
Linda Gröning is a Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Bergen, Norway.
- Principal Investigator for DIMENSIONS
- Principal Investigator for CHILDCRIM
- Chair of the Research group for Criminal Justice and Mental Health
Gröning is also the Chair of the Norwegian Criminal Law Commission, has a part time position as a senior researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology at Haukeland University Hospital, and is a Honorary Professor at De Montfort University Law School in England.
Scientific autobiography
Gröning completed her Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Law in Lund, Sweden in 2008. She was recruited to the University of Bergen as a postdoctoral researcher in 2009, and and was in 2013 appointed professor of criminal law. The main themes of her research concern criminal liability, responsibility and punishment.
Gröning served on the law commission tasked with reforming the Norwegian criminal insanity rules and systems in response to the 22 July 2011 / Anders Breivik case, which resulted in significant law reform. Since 2019 she leads the permanent expert commission on criminal law reforms in Norway.
Gröning is involved in the education for forensic psychiatrists in Norway, and has provided special education for all Norwegian judges in criminal insanity law. She has also been awarded several grants from the Research Council of Norway for large research projects.
She is currently focusing on the legal doctrine of criminal insanity, and how this doctrine is related to mental disorders, with emphasis on comparative research. She is also researching assessments about children's criminal insanity and violence risk.
Outreach
Linda Gröning is widely used as a speaker at conferences and seminars, and as an expert in the media. Below you will find selected outreach contributions (for a full overview, see Publications).
Invited lectures / key-notes
- ‘Responsibility and Risk: Mental Disorder in Criminal Law’. Utrecht University, Utrecht/Netherlands, 2023.
- ‘Criminal insanity in Norway post 22 July: Controversies and legal reforms’. Leicester De Montfort Law School/England, 2019.
- ‘Research on legal concepts about mental disorders’. Karolinska institutet, Stockholm/Sweden, 2019.
- ‘Mental disorder and violence: A criminal law perspective. 11th European congress on violence in clinical psychiatry, Lillestrøm/Norway, 2019.
- ‘Criminal responsibility in a lifetime perspective’, 13th Nordic Symposium on Forensic Psychiatry, Gothenburg/Sweden, 2019.
Media coverage
- Forskere mener jussen trenger bedre forståelse av utilregnelighet. Morgenbladet.
- Helsehjelp som straffereaksjon. Morgenbladet.
- – Dro ut proppen for å dømme barn til forvaring. Aftenposten.
- Utilregnelighet er ingen diagnose. Aftenposten.
- 22. juli-saken utfordret synet på utilregnelighet. Forskning.no.
- Noen havner i fengsel, mens andre slipper straff. Forskning.no
Recorded lectures
- Criminal Insanity in Norwegian Law. DIMENSIONS conference, Universitetet i Bergen, 2021
- Criminal Insanity – Medical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives. Bergen Exchanges, UiB/CMI Centre on Law and Social Transformation, 2021
- Ti år etter 22. juli-saken. Utfordringer for jussen og rettsvitenskapen. Universitetet i Bergen, 2021
Podcasts
- Bidrar strängare straff till färre brott? Vad Vi Vet, 9. juli 2022
- Varsku etter nye utilregnelighetsregler. Rett og Slett #31
- Kongsberg-drapene og psykiske lidelser. Rett og Slett #29
- Utilregnelig. UiB Popviten, 10. juni 2021
Teaching
Linda Gröning has wide experience with teaching and supervision of graduate students, doctoral students, post doctoral fellows and professional practitioners.
Supervision
Today she has four PhD- students under supervision and is mentoring two postdoctoral researchers:
- Martin Minderstrømmen (PhD, UiB): The concept of danger and compulsory psychiatric treatment.
- Lucie Margot Ducarre (PhD, UiB): The right to education of autistic children.
- Kari Øverland (Stipendiat, Helse Bergen/UiB): The child premise in experts assessments about children's criminal insanity and violence risk.
- Natalia Tesli (PhD, UiO): Imaging violence in severe mental discorders; clinical relevance in the interface betweeen law and neuroscience. (Main supervisor: Unn K. Haukvik)
- Stephen Mathis (Postdoc, UiB): The philosophical dimension of criminal insanity.
- Daniil Butenko (Postdoc, Helse Bergen): The medical dimension of criminal insanity.
Teaching:
Faculty of Law, University of Bergen:
Competence Center in Forensic Psychiatry:
- Specialist education for forensic psychiatrists, arranged by SIFER (National network for security-, prison-, and forensic psychiatry).
Previous:
Gröning has previously been the course leader of the PhD-course 'Perspectives on Law and Legal Science' together with professor Jørn Jacobsen at the UiB. From 2002 - 2009 Gröning was teaching criminal law, criminal procedure, international and European criminal law and European human rights law at Faculty of Law/University of Lund/Sweden.
Publications
Academic article
- Lucie Margot Ducarre; Anna Linda Gröning; Kari Øverland (2025). Autism in Norwegian Criminal Justice : A Thematic Analysis of Preventive Detention Cases Against Children. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2014). Kriminell lavalder - noen utgangspunkter. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Unn Kristin Hansen Haukvik; Stephen Morse et al. (2022). Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Straffgenomföring som en del av straffrättssystemet: Principförklaring av fängelsestraffets innehåll. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Øverland Kari; Ottesen Øyvind (2021). Utilregnelighet hos barn mellom 15 og 18 år: Utfordringer og muligheter. (external link)
- Lucie Margot Ducarre; Marit Skivenes; Anna Linda Gröning (2026). PROTECTing Children’s Rights Within Crime Prevention, the Nordic Countries at a Crossroad?. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2015). Tilregnelighet og utilregnelighet: begreper og regler. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Towards a Theory of the Criminal Justice System. (external link)
- Jørn Jacobsen; Linda Gröning (2022). Lovkommentar til straffeloven kapittel 25: Voldslovbrudd mv.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). A criminal justice system or a system deficit : notes on the system structure of the EU criminal law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2017). I huvudet på en maratonlöpare. Reflektioner om straffansvarets biologiska förutsättningar. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2009). Lissabonfördraget och frågan om EU-straffrättens syfte. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2015). Ja, lovbrytere bør ha fri vilje! Til Espen Schaanning om grunnlaget og utformingen av utilregnelighetsreglene. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Karl Heinrik Melle (2024). En kommentar til HR-2023-1242-A og HR-2023-1243-A: Planlegging som premiss for (u)tilregnelighet og rettens bruk av diagnoser. (external link)
- Anna Linda Gröning; Susanna Radovic; Unn Kristin Hansen Haukvik (2025). Reconsidering the Relationship Between Criminal Insanity and Delusions. (external link)
- Kari Øverland; Kevin Stewart Douglas; Elisabeth Norman et al. (2025). Developmental factors in forensic assessments of children over the minimum age of criminal responsibility: A study of forensic reports in Norway 2013–2024. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Slavka Dimitrova (2024). Special criminal sanctions for offenders with mental disorders: Tendencies and challenges in Bulgaria and Norway. (external link)
- Tina Søreide; Linda Grøning; Rasmus Wandall (2016). An efficient anticorruption sanctions regime. The case of the World Bank. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Straffrättssystemets funktion vid familjevåldsbrott mot barn: problem, utgångspunkter, perspektiv och svar. (external link)
- Daniil Butenko; Slavka Dimitrova; Linda Gröning (2023). Identifying deficits in Ukrainian law: Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2021). Has Norway abandoned its medical model? Thoughts about the criminal insanity reform post 22 July. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Familjevåld i gränssnittet mellan straffrätten och barnevernsrätten : om offentliga myndigheters rätt och plikt att anmäla brott. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Unn Kristin H. Haukvik; Gerben Meynen et al. (2020). Constructing criminal insanity: The roles of legislators, judges and experts in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Familjevåld i gränssnittet mellan straffrätten och barnevernsrätten: Om offentliga myndigheters rätt och plikt att anmäla av brott. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Yanique Andersen (2016). Rehabilitation in Principle and Practice: Perspectives of Inmates and Officers. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Slavka Dimitrova (2023). Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Unn Kristin H. Haukvik; Karl Henrik Melle (2019). Criminal Insanity, Psychosis and Impaired Reality Testing in Norwegian Law.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2014). Education for foreign inmates in Norwegian prisons: A legal and humanitarian perspective. (external link)
- Victoria Westrum; Linda Gröning (2022). Strafferettslig utilregnelighet ved psykisk utviklingshemming – en diskusjon om regelen og praktiseringen av den. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Ingun Fornes (2021). Bruk av forvaring og sikring overfor barn 1965–2020: Tidsubestemt frihetsberøvelse av barn i et utviklingsperspektiv. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Karl Henrik Melle (2022). Strafferettslig utilregnelighet: regelavklaring og rolleavklaring. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Ingrid Marie Myklebust (2018). Intoxication and self-induced criminal incapacity in Norwegian law. (external link)
- Jørn Jacobsen; Linda Gröning (2021). Straffeloven kapittel 25: Voldsforbrytelsene. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Regulating Criminal Unaccountability - From Concepts to Defensible Legal Standards. (external link)
Professional article
- Linda Gröning (2024). A Normative Compass for Nordic Criminal Law: The Case of Unaccountable Offenders. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2017). Hvordan skal vi avgjøre om alvorlig sinnslidelse innebærer utilregnelighet? Refleksjoner om lovforslaget i Prop. 154 L (2016-2017). (external link)
- Tore Hofstad; Olav Nyttingnes; Simen Markussen et al. (2023). Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project. (external link)
Academic book chapter
- Linda Grøning; Jørn RT Jacobsen (2012). Introduction: Restorative Justice and the Criminal Justice System. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Security, Justice and the Criminal Justice System: Remarks on EU Criminal Law. (external link)
- Jørn Jacobsen; Linda Gröning (2021). Styrket lovskrav – bare i Høyesterett? Et kritisk perspektiv på utviklingen i straffelovgivningen. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2019). Fornuftig tvil eller tvilsom fornuft? Tvil, sakkyndighet og bevisvurdering i utilregnelighetssaker. (external link)
- Inger Marie Fridhov; Linda Grøning (2018). Penal Ideology and Prison Architecture. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Sjuk, frisk och farlig: straffrättens reaktionssystem i gränssnittet mellan straff, vård och samhällsskydd. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Patient autonomy and criminal law: A Norwegian perspective. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2019). Juridiske perspektiv på endringer i fengselspopulasjonen.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2011). Straffrätten i verkligheten eller som verkligheten: Reflektioner kring straffrättsdogmatikens empiriska förankring. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). Criminal Law Science and Transnational Criminal Law: Reflections on the Role for Comparative Research. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Unn Kristin Hansen Haukvik (2024). Neuroscience. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2020). Barnerett, strafferett eller barnestrafferett? Tanker om barneperspektivets økende rolle i strafferetten.. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Criminal insanity in Norwegian Law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Hilde Svrljuga Sætre (2019). Criminal justice and detention. (external link)
- Anna Linda Gröning (2024). Mental Illness and Criminal Responsibility. (external link)
- Ingun Fornes; Linda Gröning (2023). Barn i straffesaker: skyldevne og reaksjonsvalg. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2019). Utilregnelighetsreglenes moderne historie.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2016). Er de norske utilregnelighetsreglene i strid med rettsfølelsen?. (external link)
Book anthology
Radio or TV participation
- Katrine Holter; Linda Gröning; Unn Kristin Hansen Haukvik (2022). Rett og Slett #29: Kongsberg-drapene og psykiske lidelser. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Bidrar strängare straff till färre brott?. (external link)
- Katrine Holter; Linda Gröning; Karl Heinrik Melle et al. (2022). Rett og Slett #31: Varsku etter nye utilregnelighetsregler. (external link)
Media interview
- Linda Gröning; Jon Kåre Time (2022). Forskere mener jussen trenger bedre forståelse av utilregnelighet. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2021). Utilregnlig. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Anna Myklebust Hodne; Kenneth Fossheim (2022). 183 saker gjenåpnet på grunn av utilregnelighet. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Torkjell Trædal; Tine Dommerud (2022). – Dro ut proppen for å dømme barn til forvaring. (external link)
- Anna Linda Gröning; Torkjell J. Trædal (2023). – Mange som bør ha straff, burde ikke vært i fengsel. (external link)
Lecture
- Linda Gröning (2023). The relevance of mental disorders for criminal accountability: concepts, norms and science. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Svein Atle Skålevåg (2023). Psykisk utviklingshemming, IQ og strafferettslig utilregnelighet. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2011). Straffets föremål och straffrättsystemets innehåll:Tankar från straffrättsvetenskapens horisont. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). En inkluderende strafferett? Straff og straffegjennomføring fra strafferettens perspektiv. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Stephen Morse (2022). Insanity, Mental disorder and Crime. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Svein Atle Skålevåg (2023). Utilregnelighet, intelligens og IQ. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Strafferettslig utilregnelighet. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). The DIMENSIONS project. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Criminal accountability and mental disorders. Opportunities and challenges for cross-disciplinary research. (external link)
- Kari Øverland; Anna Linda Gröning (2025). CHILDCRIM – vurderinger av barns utilregnelighet og voldsrisiko. (external link)
- Marit Skivenes; Anna Linda Gröning (2025). Hvordan møter samfunnet barn som begår alvorlige handlinger som skader andre? . (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2021). Criminal Insanity in Norwegian Law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2011). Straffets föremål och straffgenomföring: Frågan om utbildning i fängelset. (external link)
- Anna Linda Gröning (2023). Perspectives on the responsibility doctrine in criminal law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Reaksjonssystemet i grensesnittet mellom behandling, straff og samfunnsvern. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2021). Ti år etter 22 juli saken: Utfordringer for jussen og rettsvitenskapen.. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Status for forensic psychiatry.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Straffrättslig kompetens på EU-nivå. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Susanna Radovic; Unn Kristin H. Haukvik (2021). Criminal Insanity - Medical. Philosophial and Legal Perspectives. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Current challenges in law: Criminal (un)accountability and mental disorders. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Vurderinger av psykisk sykdom, utilregnelighet og voldsrisiko for barn. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2021). Kvinner i fengsel - stopper likestillingen bak murene?. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2023). Comment on criminal justice assessment - Impunity in Mexico. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Legal and forensic assessments of children: presentation of the CHILDCRIM project.. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Anna Linda Gröning (2023). Strafferettslig tilregnelighet – rettspraksis etter lovendringen. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2022). Limits of autonomy? reflections about criminal law’s treatment of intellectually disabled persons.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Straffegjennomføring fra strafferettens perspektiv. (external link)
- Jørn RT Jacobsen; Linda Grøning (2012). Politisering av strafferetten. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2023). Criminal insanity, risk and mental disorder: Norwegian law and beyond. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). Problems of contemporary criminal law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Towards a Theory of the Criminal Justice System?. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2014). The rules on legal insanity: a debate. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). Internasjonalisering av strafferetten; lovgjeving og strafferettsvitskap. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). Restorative Justice in Criminal Law: Introduction. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). Nationell eller transnationell straffrättsvetenskap?. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2015). Begrunnelser for straff. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Susanna Radovic (2024). The example of delusions. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Socially unjust punishment? Self-induced intoxication and insanity in Norwegian law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). Familjevåldsbrott mot barn. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Politisering av strafferetten. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Anita Lill Hansen (2015). Barns Skyldevne. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Unity trough science? A common comparative framework for transnational criminal law. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2010). “Security, Justice and the Criminal Justice System”. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2013). A Criminal Law Perspective: Mental order as an excuse. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Vold i nære relasjoner fra strafferettens perspektiv. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2012). Hvem har skyldevne?: (U)tilregnelighetsreglene i dag og i fremtiden. (external link)
- Ingun Fornes; Linda Gröning (2022). Barnekonvensjonen i norsk rett: Barn som tiltalt. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2015). Insanity rules in the Nordic Countries. (external link)
- Linda Gröning (2024). Concepts of dangerousness and risk in law. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Erling Johannes Husabø; Jørn Jacobsen; Linda Grøning et al. (2020). Forbrytelser i utvalg : straffelovens regler om voldsforbrytelser, seksualforbrytelser, formuesforbrytelser og narkotikaforbrytelser.. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Jørn Jacobsen; Erling Johannes Husabø (2019). Frihet, forbrytelse og straff : En systematisk fremstilling av norsk strafferett. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Erling Johannes Husabø; Jørn Jacobsen (2023). Frihet, forbrytelse og straff : en systematisk fremstilling av norsk strafferett. (external link)
- Erling Johannes Husabø; Linda Grøning; Jørn Jacobsen (2016). Frihet, forbrytelse og straff. En systematisk fremstilling av norsk strafferett. (external link)
- Erling Johannes Husabø; Jørn RT Jacobsen; Linda Grøning (2015). Frihet, forbrytelse og straff. En systematisk framstilling av norsk strafferett. Foreløpig versjon av del I og II. (external link)
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Non-fiction monograph
Textbook
Popular science article
Media feature article
- Randi Rosenqvist; Karl Henrik Melle; Kjersti Narud et al. (2018). De sakkyndiges rolle i straffesaker. (external link)
- Jørn Jacobsen; Linda Grøning (2017). Det norske kontrollregimet. (external link)
- Linda Gröning; Karl Heinrik Melle (2022). Utilregnelighet er ingen diagnose. (external link)
- Jørn RT Jacobsen; Linda Grøning (2012). Lovgjeving i terrorens tidsalder. (external link)
- Randi Rosenqvist; Karl Heinrik Melle; Kjersti Narud et al. (2018). Utilregnelighet til besvær – igjen. (external link)
- Randi Rosenqvist; Karl Henrik Melle; Kjersti Narud et al. (2018). Helsehjelp som straffereaksjon. (external link)
Conference abstract
- Linda Grøning; Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn (2015). Proposal for New Rules Regarding Criminal Insanity and Related Issues, Norway post-22 July. (external link)
- Anne Marie Frøseth; Linda Grøning; Jan Tore Remøy et al. (2015). Mellom rett og følelse. Strafferettssystemets håndtering av befolkningens rettsfølelse. (external link)
Academic literature review
Journal review
- Linda Grøning (2011). Bokanmälan för Lissabontraktaten – en politologisk analyse, Peter Nedergaard, Jurist og Økonomforbundets Forlag 2010. (external link)
- Linda Grøning; Annika Elisabet Suominen; Stine Borge (2013). Konferanserapport: familievold og strafferettssystemets funksjonalitet. (external link)
- Linda Grøning (2016). Om straffrättsvillfarelse (ak.avh.), Wolters Kluwer 2016, 449 s. (external link)
Non-fiction book chapter
Popular science book chapter
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Linda Gröning is the author and editor of a number of articles, book sections and books. Here you will find an overview of her publications sorted by category.
Projects
Linda Gröning is an experienced project manager of large research projects, and is also involved as a collaborator in several interdiciplinary research projects.
Principal Investigator:
- DIMENSIONS. Criminal insanity and psychosis. Funded by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2026).
- CHILDCRIM. Assessments about children's criminal insanity and violence risk. Funded by the Research Council of Norway (2023-2028).
- Criminal accountability and mental disorders around the world. Funded by the UiB/CMI collaboration fund (2022-2024).
- PROTECT. Childrens rights, crime prevention and public safety. Led with Marit Skivenes. Funded by the Research Council of Norway (2025-2030).
Project Affiliate:
- Historicizing Intelligence. Tests, metrics and the shaping of contemporary society (University of Oslo)
- Controversies in Psychiatry. Coercive measures and medication (Haukeland University Hospital)
- Indefinite preventive detention. The implementation and impact of the ultimate penalty in Norway (NTNU)
Previous projects:
- The functionality of the criminal justice system. Project manager. Funded by Bergen Research Foundation (2011 - 2018).
- Risks and Responses in the Modern Criminal Law. Project manager (together with Jørn Jacobsen). Funded by the Research Council of Norway (2011-2016).