Willy Pedersen

Who is Willy Pedersen?

Willy Pedersen is professor of Sociology at Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo.

Pedersen took his Ph.D degree in 1991, on the thesis Drugs in adolescent worlds. He was engaged as professor in sociology in 2001.

He has been working with deviance, marginalization and culture. Empirical research projects on adolescence, alcohol and drugs, crime and sexuality. He has worked with as well large longitudinal, quantitative data sets as qualitative data and field work.

He has published a large number of articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and a large number of books – most in Norwegian. He published Street Capital: Black cannabis dealers in a white welfare state in 2009. He also writes for a number of Norwegian newspapers, including Aftenposten, Dagbladet and Morgenbladet.