Professor Beatriz Magaloni vid Stanforduniversitetet.Fotograf: Emilia Diaz-Magaloni.

Beatriz Magaloni is awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for her research providing important evidence that police organizations are vulnerable to populist demands for harsh police methods that violate the rule of law and human rights and which has proven to increase violence rather than decrease it.
 
Beatriz Magaloni's research has, among other things, provided significant and important results in her extensive research in Mexico and Brazil, the results show how public support for police militarization can challenge human rights without increasing public safety. 

Magaloni has worked on innovative criminological research into police behavior in Latin American countries. Her contribution to the criminological field is vast. “Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (2006)” and “Institutionalized Police Brutality: Torture, the Militarization of Security, and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico” (the American Political Science Review, 2020) has presented important evidence for a reform of the protection of human rights: The abolition of torture in police investigations.

Beatriz Magaloni is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University in California. She was educated in Mexico, where she received her law degree from the Institution Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico. She went on to complete her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in North Carolina, after which she joined the Stanford faculty.

After the seminar we will be offering a “Swedish fika”. 

The seminar will be held in English.