2026

• Intervju
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2026) Is irreducible life imprisonment a “death penalty in disguise”?.
• Foredrag
  Johnsen, Berit; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Stavseth, Marianne Riksheim; Dahl, Hilde; Bukten, Anne. (2026) Prevalence and patterns of mental health disorders in long-term preventive detention: a 13-year national cohort study/ To stop or continue counting? Calculating reconviction leading to imprisonment after preventive detention in Norway. Fagsamling for ledere i Kriminalomsorgen region øst
• Konferanseforedrag
  Berit, Johnsen; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2026) To stop or continue counting? Calculating reconviction leading to imprisonment after preventive detention in Norway. Seminar, Nasjonal enhet for rettspsykiatrisk sakkyndige
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2026) FRIPRO Motivational Webinar: Successes and Failures of Research Applications. FRIPRO Motivational Webinar
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Jimada, Zinat; Smit, Dirk van Zyl. (2026) Alternatives to the Death Penalty. World Coalition Against the Death Penalty CoP Webinar
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2026) The Release and Reintegration of Individuals Serving INdefinite PreventivE DEtention: The INPEDE Project. Fagdag for Regionalt kompetansesenter for sikkerhets-, fengsels- og rettpsykiatri
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard. (2026) ULTPEN: What we have done and what we are doing!. Fagdag for Regionalt kompetansenter for sikkerhets-, fengsels- og rettspsykiatry
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Gupta, Ayan. (2026) Life imprisonment and human rights: A global perspective. International Colloquium on Rethinking Incarceration: Challenges in Sentencing and Administration of Imprisonment

2025

• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Reflections on successes and challenges in FRIPRO research applications – insights from the ULTPEN project (a sample of one…!). FRIPRO motivational seminar
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Contemporary issues surrounding the use of the death penalty and life imprisonment. Public Lecture
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Life imprisonment: A global human rights perspective. Public Lecture
• Intervju
  Yeh, Chia-Chun; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Lehrfreund, Saul. (2025) Why does Taiwan still have the death penalty?.
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Life after the death penalty: The challenge of alternative sanctions. East Asia Forum
• Aviskronikk
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Lehrfreund, Saul. (2025) Death penalty has no place in Taiwan.
• Bloggpost
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Lehrfreund, Saul. (2025) Cruel punishments that extinguish hope have no place in Taiwan's democracy | Oxford Law Blogs.
• Deltakelse i radio- eller TV
  Berit, Johnsen; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Kveldsnytt: I går · Nye tall bekymrer - NRK TV.
• Intervju
  Berit, Johnsen; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Ny forskning om forvaring – 10 prosent gjentar grov kriminalitet. – NRK Trøndelag – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio.
• Konferanseforedrag
  Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Berit, Johnsen; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Stavseth, Marianne Riksheim; Dahl, Hilde; Bukten, Anne. (2025) Forvaring in Norway: a register-based population analysis. Kriminologikonferansen
• Konferanseforedrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Berit, Johnsen; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea. (2025) The implementation and impact of ‘forvaring’, Norway’s ultimate penalty. Kriminologikonferansen 2025
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Dahl, Hilde; Berit, Johnsen. (2025) Preventive detention: An international perspective. Kriminologikonferansen 2025
• Konferanseforedrag
  Whittington, Richard; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Nordic exceptionalism in punishment and prisons: Myth, reality or something in-between?. Comparing Norway and UK punishment systems
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2025) Life Sentences: A Global Human Rights Perspective. Penal Enforcement Law in Transition: Human Rights, Rehabilitation, and Social Responsibility

2024

• Konferanseforedrag
  Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde. (2024) Performing abolition: the ‘exceptional’ story of life imprisonment in Norway. British Society of Criminology Conference
• Konferanseforedrag
  Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2024) Indeterminate sentencing in Norway and England and Wales – two exceptional cases?. Exceptional forms of coercive confinement: Pockets of punitiveness in the Welfare State
• Konferanseforedrag
  Berit, Johnsen; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2024) There and back again: Conceptualizing and calculating reconviction to imprisonment after preventive detention in Norway. Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
• Konferanseforedrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Berit, Johnsen. (2024) ULTPEN - Endring av - forvaring og en selv. Læringspunkter fra samtaler i norske forvaringsavdelinger. KRUS Forvaringssamling 2024
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard. (2024) Indefinite preventive detention: The implementation and impact of Norway’s ULTimate PENalty (ULTPEN). Dutch Advisory Board for Review of Leave from Detention under a Hospital Order Study Leave Trip Trondheim

2023

• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2023) The definition of ‘life’ and statistical picture of life imprisonment worldwide. Council of Europe Workshop on life imprisonment sentences for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and prison authorities from the Republic of Moldova
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2023) Implementing life sentences in line with the international standards and best practice. Council of Europe Workshop on life imprisonment sentences for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and prison authorities from the Republic of Moldova
• Konferanseforedrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Berit, Johnsen; Todd, John; Whittington, Richard Charles. (2023) Assessing the evolution of the forvaring system and the role of risk assessment. Kriminologikonferansen 2023
• Konferanseforedrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Todd-Kvam, John; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard Charles. (2023) Å sone forvaring: noen foreløpige funn fra ULTPEN-prosjektet. Fagkonferansen
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Todd, John; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard Charles. (2023) Serving preventive detention - the impact of indeterminate sentencing in Norway. Long term and life imprisonment
• Foredrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Todd-Kvam, John; Whittington, Richard Charles; Berit, Johnsen. (2023) ULTPEN - funding, outcome, preliminary analysis. Forskersamling SIFER

2022

• Konferanseposter
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Whittington, Richard; Berit, Johnsen. (2022) ULTPEN - Indefinite Preventive Detention: The Implementation and Impact of the ULTimate PENalty in Norway. Regional digital forskningskonferanse i Helse Midt-Norge 2022
• Foredrag
  Dahl, Hilde; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard. (2022) ULTPEN. Indefinite preventive detention: The Implementation and Impact of the ULTimate PENalty in Norway - et FRIPRO-prosjekt. MTFS forskningsseminar
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Whittington, Richard; Berit, Johnsen. (2022) Reflections on forvaring: An exceptional approach to life imprisonment?. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Berit, Johnsen; Dahl, Hilde; Whittington, Richard. (2022) Informal life sentences in Norway: The ULTPEN research project. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2022) Death-in-Prison Sentencing. International scientific conference on Deaths in Prison
• Konferanseforedrag
  Berit, Johnsen; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Dahl, Hilde; Whittington, Richard. (2022) Forvaring as the ultimate penalty in Norway: Some recidivism rates. European Society of Criminology annual prison group meeting

2021

• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Nikartas, Simonas; Šleinotaitė, Goda. (2021) Providing (false) hope of release? Life imprisonment in Lithuania. International Scientific Conference 'The best of the worst and the permanently bad: Life-sentenced prisoners' online conference hosted by the University of Warsaw
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Smit, Dirk Van Zyl. (2021) Life imprisonment: The use of it internationally and what is to be done. Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
• Intervju
  Unger, Brooke; Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2021) As the death penalty becomes less common, life imprisonment becomes more so. Reformers say life is often too long.
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2021) The ULTPEN project: Indefinite preventive detention: The Implementation and Impact of the ULTimate PENalty in Norway. prisonHEALTH research group meeting
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Smit, Dirk Van Zyl. (2021) Asian life imprisonment in worldwide perspective. Life Imprisonment in Asia: Law and Practice

2020

• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Smit, Dirk Van Zyl. (2020) Challenges of life imprisonment under international human rights standards: Can it be an alternative to capital punishment?. Alternatives to the death penalty
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2020) Life imprisonment: A global human rights crisis. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

2019

• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2019) Life imprisonment: The best alternative?. World Congress Against the Death Penalty
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2019) Life imprisonment: Human rights violations in the sentencing and treatment of life-sentenced prisoners. 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
• Konferanseforedrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Smit, Dirk Van Zyl. (2019) Life imprisonment in all but name? The imposition of informal life sentences. Annual Gerald Gordon Seminar

2018

• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Smit, Dirk Van Zyl. (2018) Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis. Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis Book Launch
• Foredrag
  Appleton, Catherine Amelia. (2018) Life-sentenced prisoners as vulnerable prisoners. United Nations Committee Against Torture (closed event)