Each of the member countries along with Greenland, The Farao Islands and Sweeden has a Contact Secretary associated with the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology. Among the tasks of the Contact Secretaries is to inform their national criminological communities about the Council's activities and to inform the Nordic criminological community, through the Council's newsletter Nordisk Kriminologi, about current questions of criminology and criminal policy in the Contact Secretaries' respective countries.