Music therapy in prisons and places of incarceration

Music therapy and mental health

Music and identity

Cultural criminology

Musikkterapeutisk bruksmusikk MUTP102

Musikkterapeutisk basisinstrument MUTP200

Innføring i musikkterapeutisk praksis MUTP205

Musikkterapeutisk forskningsmetode MUTP312

Articles (peer reviewed)

Hjørnevik, K., Waage, L., and Hansen, A. L. (2022). 'Musical life stories: coherence through musicking in the prison setting', Crime, Media, Culture. 

Gold, C., Due, F. B., Thieu, E. K., Hjørnevik, K., Tuastad, L. and Assmus, J. (2020). 'Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy for Prison Inmates: Six-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. doi: 10.1177/0306624X20909216.

Hjørnevik, K., and Waage, L. (2019). 'The prison as a therapeutic music scene; Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting', Punishment and Society. 21(4), 454-472. doi.org/10.1177/1462474518794187

Gold, C., Assmus, J., Hjørnevik, K., Qvale, L. G., Brown, F. K., Hansen, A. L., & Stige, B. (2014). 'Music therapy for prisoners: Pilot randomised controlled trial and implications for evaluating psychosocial interventions', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 58(12), 1520-1539.

PhD thesis:

Hjørnevik, K (2021). 'An Ethnography of Music Therapy in a Norwegian Prison: Exploring Musicking, Identity and Change in the Carceral Setting'. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London.