Ragnhild Sollund

Ragnhild Sollund is a Norwegian professor and author. She is professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo. Sollund has published widely in the area of migration, violence, police racial profiling and green criminology particularly relating to wildlife conservation. She is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of green criminology, which studies the relationship between nature and society in a eco-global perspective, as well as the harms and crimes humans cause the natural environment and nonhuman animals.

Career
From 2019, Sollund has led the research project, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. 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 also been involved in other commissioned research for the European Union concerning environmental crime, including wildlife crime.

Awards
Sollund received The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice in 2021. She is also a recipient of the Energy Globe Award, Norway for her research on the illegal wildlife trade, and her book Green harms and crimes. Critical criminology in a changing world (published at Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan in 2015), was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.

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.)).
 * 2015: Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminology in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan.
 * 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.)).
 * 2019: The crimes of wildlife trafficking. Issues of justice, legality and morality. Routledge.
 * 2021: Bare et dyr? Solum bokvennen. 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.)).
 * 2024: Ragnhild Sollund and Martine S. B. Lie, Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Bristol University Press.

Sollund has published about 80 academic papers for various international journals and edited collections. Her research has contributed to several art exhibitions and performances.