Music therapy in prisons and places of incarceration

Music therapy and mental health

Music and identity

Cultural criminology

Musikkterapeutisk bruksmusikk MUTP102

Innføring i musikkterapeutisk praksis MUTP205

Musikkterapeutisk forskningsmetode MUTP312

Articles (peer reviewed)

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). Wanted dead or alive: The collaborative art of performing music therapy in prison. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v26i2.4558

Hjørnevik, K. (2025). More than a sound: Tone as affective encounter in music therapy in prison. The Arts in Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/[add DOI if available]

Hjørnevik, K., Waage, L., & Hansen, A. L. (2023). Musical life stories: Coherence through musicking in the prison setting. Crime, Media, Culture, 19(1), 74–94.

Gold, C., Due, F. B., Thieu, E. K., Hjørnevik, K., Tuastad, L., & Assmus, J. (2020). Long-term effects of short-term music therapy for prison inmates: Six-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X20909216

Hjørnevik, K., & Waage, L. (2019). The prison as a therapeutic music scene: Exploring musical identities in music therapy and everyday life in a prison setting. Punishment & Society, 21(4), 454–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474518794187

Gold, C., Assmus, J., Hjørnevik, K., Qvale, L. G., Brown, F. K., Hansen, A. L., & Stige, B. (2014). Music therapy for prisoners: Pilot randomized controlled trial and implications for evaluating psychosocial interventions. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 58(12), 1520–1539.

Book chapters

Hjørnevik, K. (in press). From “crime scene” to “music scene”? Music therapy in a Scandinavian prison. In A. Chamberlen & R. Bernatek (Eds.), Carceral arts: Global perspectives on creativity, justice & resistance. Bristol University Press.

PhD thesis:

Hjørnevik, K (2021). 'An Ethnography of Music Therapy in a Norwegian Prison: Exploring Musicking, Identity and Change in the Carceral Setting'. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London.