ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates debates on Nordic criminal justice in the centrally placed Nordic Journal of Criminal Science (NTfK) between 1949 and 2017. Analyzing the articles published in the NTfK, it contributes a critical analysis of the changing role and status of the journal over the studied period. The chapter briefly outlines the theoretical framework, its methods, and data. It zooms in on the disciplinary battles that characterized the NTfK and how they played out over the four different temporal periods into which data was coded. The chapter investigates, again following the four time periods, the contest to define Nordic research objects and perspectives and to defend the Nordic perspective in an increasingly globalized world. Finally, it concludes by situating the debates of the NTfK in the wider context of Nordic cooperation, competition, and nation branding.
