Academic interests
Punishment and corrections, policy-evaluations, drug policy, recidivism, comparative justice, criminal networks, family and employment, quantitative methods, social network analysis, causal analysis
Courses taught
Background
Synøve N. Andersen holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo (2017). She was employed at the Research Department at Statistics Norway between 2012 and 2020, where she worked on projects in the overlap of sociology, criminology, demography and economics. Between 2018 and 2020 she also held a part-time position as an Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, before she joined the Department of Sociology and Human Geography as a postdoctoral fellow in 2020 and then as an Associate Professor in 2024. Synøve is currently the program leader for the BA Program in Sociology at the Department.
Synøve's work centers on several topics related to deviance, crime and punishment, in addition to drug and family policy. She is currently the co-lead of the Scandinavian Prison Project, which explores what happens when Scandinavian correctional principles and practices are implemented in an American prison setting.
Andersen is also a faculty affiliate at the Department of Criminology and Justice studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches on Norwegian corrections and are co-instructor on several intensive courses abroad about Scandinavian approaches to drug treatment, corrections and criminal justice.