About
Lars Roar Frøyland is a Senior Researcher at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University (Section for Youth Research). He is also associated to The Domestic Violence Research Program, a ten-year research initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and the Ministry of Education and Research. Frøyland holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Oslo (2020) with a dissertation on adolescent perpetrators of violence and a MA in sociology from the University of Oslo (2009).
His primary research interests are violence and abuse, both in the family and among peers, and crime and other forms of problem behavior among adolescents. He has been the Principal Investigator in projects on societal trends in violence and abuse, long-term outcomes of violent victimization, technology-assisted sexual abuse, and the public sentiments on justice and punishment. His most recent publications cover areas such as technology-assisted sexual assault, sexual assaults while under the influence of alcohol among adolescents, and societal trends in adolescent problem behavior.
Frøyland has extensive experience with collection and analysis of quantitative data, and has been involved in the work with large scale surveys like Ungdata, Young in Norway, and the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS).
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Violence Quanitative research methods Social inequalities Youth Aggression Youth surveys Norway Youth surveys Perpetrators of violence Adolescence
Research groups
Research projects
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Adolescent Physical Violence. Understanding Societal Trends and Life Outcomes for Perpetrators
This project covers the use of violence among Norwegian adolescents and is financed through the Domestic Violence Research Program at NOVA.
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Digital Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents
The project will, in a comprehensive literature review, map existing knowledge about digital sexual violence against children and adolescents.
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International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 (ICCS)
The ICCS 2016-study investigates students’ knowledge and understanding of societal values, civic society and political systems.
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Knowledge on Technology-facilitated Sexual Abuse against Children and Adolescents – offenders, the offended, and arenas
The project will generate new knowledge about sexual abuse of children and adolescents, with the main emphasis on technology-facilitated sexual abuse.
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Sexual Culture in Youth
The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
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The Public Sense of Criminal Justice
The project aims to provide new knowledge on different aspects of the public sense of criminal justice in the Norwegian population.
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Ungdata
Ungdata is a cross-national data collection scheme, designed to conduct youth surveys at the municipal level in Norway. NOVA administers the national database which is used as a basis for many research projects.
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UngVold 2023 – Trends in Exposure to Violence
In 2023, NOVA will collect new data for the survey UngVold, which maps Norwegian children and adolescents’ experience of violence and abuse during their upbringing.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Frøyland, Lars Roar; Andersen, Patrick Lie (2022). Interpersonal Victimization During Childhood and Adolescence and Educational Attainment in Young Adulthood: A Latent Class Analysis Approach. Journal of Interpersonal Violence .
Frøyland, Lars Roar
(2022).
Understanding Societal Trends in Adolescent Violence.
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab
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Vol. 109.
https://tidsskrift.dk/NTfK/article/view/130288/176...
Frøyland, Lars Roar
(2021).
Problematferd - avvik eller vanlig ungdomsliv?.
Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
UNGDOMMEN. 12.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/...
Stefansen, Kari; Frøyland, Lars Roar; Øverlien, Carolina
(2020).
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths: beyond the perpetrator tactics framework.
Journal of Youth Studies
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13676...
Frøyland, Lars Roar; Bakken, Anders; von Soest, Tilmann
(2020).
Physical Fighting and Leisure Activities among Norwegian Adolescents—Investigating Co-occurring Changes from 2015 to 2018.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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Vol. 49.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/83161
Stefansen, Kari; Løvgren, Mette; Frøyland, Lars Roar
(2019).
Making the case for ‘good enough’ rape-prevalence estimates Insights from a school-based survey experiment among Norwegian youths.
Heinskou, Marie Bruvik; Stefansen, Kari; Skilbrei, May-Len (Ed.).
Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change. 5.
Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7786
Frøyland, Lars Roar; Von Soest, Tilmann
(2019).
Adolescent boys’ physical fighting and adult life outcomes: Examining the interplay with intelligence.
Aggressive Behavior
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Vol. 46.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/a...
Bakken, Anders; Andersen, Patrick Lie; Frøyland, Lars Roar; Abebe, Dawit Shawel
(2019).
Rekkefølgeeffekter i spørreundersøkelser blant ungdom. Resultater fra et split-ballot-eksperiment.
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
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Vol. 3.
https://www.idunn.no/norsk_sosiologisk_tidsskrift/...
Frøyland, Lars Roar; von Soest, Tilmann (2017). Trends in the Perpetration of Physical Aggression among Norwegian Adolescents 2007-2015. Journal of Youth and Adolescence .
Abebe, Dawit Shawel; Frøyland, Lars Roar; Bakken, Anders; von Soest, Tilmann (2016). Municipal-level differences in depressive symptoms among adolescents in Norway: Results from the cross-national Ungdata study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health . Vol. 44.