Thomas Mathiesen is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo where he worked as a Professor from 1972 to 2003. He was co-founder of the Norwegian Association of Penal Reform (KROM) in 1968 where he remains an active member today. He is the author of a number of books on prison and prison abolition, many of which are published in English, including The Defences of the Weak: A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution (1965), The Politics of Abolition (1974), Prison on Trial (1990), Silently Silenced (2004), and Candenza: A Professional Autobiography (2017).
