The International Jury of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation has announced their decision to award the 2025 Stockholm Prize in Criminology to Frances Crook and Bryan Stevenson, for their applied criminological research as practitioners that succeeded in reducing cruel and unusual punishment.
Anita Heber is professor in criminology at the Department of Criminology. She is one of the new professors who will be installed at a ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall on September 27.
In a new report, Fredrik Sivertsson, scholar at the Department of Criminology, studies the development of violence among teenage boys in Stockholm and who commits the crimes.
A research team led by Amber L. Beckley, at Stockholm University reports an association between adolescents becoming more psychosocially mature as they age and declining levels of violent victimization in the form of threats and assault.
