Kjersti Ericsson (born 18 January 1944 in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, Norway) is a Norwegian psychologist, criminologist, writer, poet and former politician. She is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

. Ericsson obtained her

cand.psychol. Candidate (Latin ''candidatus'' or ''candidata'') is the name of various academic degrees, chiefly in Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands and Belgium. In Scandinavia, it is a higher professional-level degree usually corresponding to 5–7 ...

degree in 1969, and was a Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the

from 1969 to 1978. Since 1978, she has been employed with the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (formerly the Department of Criminology and Criminal Law). She became an Associate Professor in 1981 and a Professor in 1997. Kjersti Ericsson was leader of the political party Workers' Communist Party (AKP) from 1984 to 1988. From 1980 to 1984, she was deputy leader. Aside from her academic publications, she has published poetry, novels and political literature in Norwegian, English and German.

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*http://folk.uio.no/kjerstie Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Norwegian criminologists Leaders of political parties in Norway Workers' Communist Party (Norway) politicians 1944 births Living people Norwegian women academics Women legal scholars Norwegian women criminologists {{criminologist-stub