PROTECT
PROTECT is a five-year project on children’s rights and crime prevention. The project is led by Linda Gröning and Marit Skivenes, and funded by the Research Council of Norway.
About the research project
PROTECT aims to enhance understanding of how to integrate children’s rights with public safety concerns by exploring the intersection between child protection and criminal justice systems. PROTECT is built on an interdisciplinary foundation, combining insights from political science, law, and social work.
Organisation
PROTECT is a collaboration between two leading research environments at the University of Bergen.
- Research Group on Crime, Responsibility and Security (external link) | Faculty of Law
- Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (external link) | Department of Government | Faculty of Social Sciences
People
Project manager
Linda Gröning Principal investigator
Marit Skivenes Co-Principal investigator
Project members
Siri Gloppen Professor
Ingun Fornes Associate Professor
Lucie Ducarre Postdoctoral Researcher
Daniel Nygård Senior Adviser
Advisory board
Prof. Tarja Pöso Tampere University, Finland
Prof. Pernilla Leviner Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof. Anette Storgaard Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof. Stephen Hart Simon Fraser University, Canada
Prof. Jill D. Berrick UC Berkeley, USA
Prof. Johannes Bijlsma Utrecht University, Netherlands
Prof. Morten Holmboe Norwegian Police University College, Norway
Stakeholder reference group
Inga Bejer Engh Assistant director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, previously Children’s Ombudsperson in Norway
Mathias Lia Nordmoen Senior advisor at the Children´s Ombudsperson in Norway
Helga Arianson Former County Doctor in Western Norway, depety manger of the residential unit committee (NOU 2023:24)
Åsmund Steine Director of the Youth Unit in Bjørgvin Prison, the Norwegian Correctional Service
Contact
- Emails
- protect@uib.no
