Here you can find a selection of academic articles from the Department of Criminology.

Desistance From Crime—to What?
Exploring Future Aspirations and Their Implications for Processes of Desistance. By: Robin Gålnander

This article presents findings from a longitudinal interview study following the desistance processes of 10 women. While desistance theory primarily focuses on the processual movement away from crime, this article pays close attention to what desisters strive to desist into. The repeated in-depth interviews reveal a diverse range of future aspirations among desisters, and the analysis unravels gendered, class-, and age-graded aspects of such aspirations. As a result of these findings, the article problematizes parts of previous research both empirically and theoretically, and allows for a development of the understanding of desistance processes.

The article was published in Feminist Criminology.

The female offender - A century of registered crime and daily press reporting on women’s crime
By: Felipe Estrada, Anders Nilsson & Tove Pettersson

This article examines how women’s crime has been reflected in crime statistics and media crime reporting. We employ a long-term historical perspective, looking at developments from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. We describe the overarching processes that underlie the decline in the gender gap in convictions for theft and violent crime, respectively, at different times during the past century. The study also use a new data set comprised of newspaper articles on women’s and men’s offending published by the Swedish press between 1905 and 2015. We compare the trend in the number of articles focused on offences committed by women and men respectively, variations in the offence types that the daily press choose to report on and the overarching explanations for crime that are discussed in the articles. The results show that levels of coverage and the types of crime that attract media attention are strikingly similar for men and women, but throughout the whole period there is a greater need for the newspapers to find reasons for women’s offending. Moreover, there has been no marked increase in the press focus on women’s crime as women have comprised an increasing proportion of those convicted of criminal offences.

The article was published in Nordic Journal of Criminology

The Spectrum of Repression: Swedish Muslims’ Experiences of Anti-terrorism Measures
By: Leandro Schclarek Mulinari

In this qualitative study, I examine, through the lens of repression, Swedish Muslims’ experiences of being targeted by authorities in the latter’s attempts to prevent terrorism. In an effort to comprehend the full force of this repression—as coercion in its physical and violent sense, but also in its more subtle and consensual forms—I interweave various Marxist and postcolonial perspectives. The study discusses internal aspects of repression, as well as its external qualities, expanding our understanding of how repression occurs between bodies and within society. I develop the concept of “repressive consent” as a means of grasping situations in which people are influenced to undertake activities against their will. Empirically, the article focuses on experiences of disproportionate security controls and encounters with the Swedish Security Service (Säpo). The material reveals both painful and everyday consequences. For some individuals, becoming a target in the War on Terror may have, as the informants of the study indicate, devastating consequences; for others, it may feel like a friendly chat.

The article was published in Critical Criminology

A Life-Course Analysis of Engagement in Violent Extremist Groups
By Christoffer Carlsson, Amir Rostami, Hernan Mondani, Joakim Sturup, Jerzy Sarnecki and Christofer Edling.

In this exploratory study, individuals' processes of engagement in violent extremist groups are analysed by drawing from criminological life-course theory and narrative-based understandings of crime. Based on interviews with individuals who have participated in violent extremism, it is suggested that the process of engagement consists of three steps: (1) a weakening of informal social controls, followed by (2) an interaction with individuals in proximity to the group and (3) a stage of meaning-making in relation to the group and one’s identity, resulting in an individual's willingness and capacity to engaging in the group's activities, including violence. In future theorizing about processes of engagement in violent extremism, the meanings of age, and the life-course stages of late adolescence and emerging adulthood in particular, should be given analytic attention.

The article was published in The British Journal of Criminology.

 

Dissertations from the Department of Criminology. You’ll find titles in both Swedish and English.

2021

Justice for children? A socio-legal study on Colombia´s responses to children associated with armed violence, Tove Nyberg

The Horror-Storied Prison A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution, Tea Fredriksson

Juvenile Crime in Context: The Significance of School Affiliation, Julia Sandahl

2020

Maintaining Desistance − Barriers and Expectations in Women's Desistance from Crime, Robin Gålnander

Race and Order. Critical Perspectives on Crime in Sweden, Leandro Schclarek Mulinari

The Plural Policing of Fraud. Power and the investigation of insurance and welfare fraud in Sweden, Anders Stenström

2019

Symbols and emotions in Swedish crime policy discourse, Klara Hermansson

2018

Criminal careers in the long run: Patterns and predictions of criminal convictions across age, time, and gender, Fredrik Sivertsson

The last policeman: On the globalisation of local policing, David Sausdal

2017

Att göra rätt – på rätt sätt, Nina Törnqvist

2015

Foreign background and criminal offending among young males in Stockholm, Amber Beckley

Controlling the Swedish state. Studies on formal and informal bodies of control, Isabel Schoultz

2014

De laglydiga. Om skolans brottsförebyggande fostran, Paula Wahlgren

Continuities and Changes in Criminal Careers, Christoffer Carlsson

2013

Legal bribes? An analysis of corporate donations to electoral campaigns, Nubia Evertsson

Mission Impossible? Universal Alcohol Prevention at Workplaces in Sweden, Mimmi Eriksson Tinghög

The Public's Sense of Justice in Sweden - a Smorgasbord of Opinions, Kristina Jerre

2012

Våld i arbetslivet. Utveckling, uppmärksamhet och åtgärder, Sofia Wikman

2011

Mått på brott: Självdeklaration som metod att mäta brottslighet, Lina Andersson

2009

Frihet under kontroll: Om kontroll i åkerinäringen, Lotta Pettersson

2008

Migration som straff?: Utvisning på grund av brott 1973-2003 med fokus på flyktingskydd, Lisa Westfelt

En oförvitlig polis?: Studier i polisetik, Börje Ekenvall

2007

Var rädd om dig!: Rädsla för brott enligt forskning, intervjupersoner och dagspress, Anita Heber.

Fångar i ett nätverk?: Fängelser, interaktioner och medbrottslingsskap, Lena Roxell

The Organised Nature of Power, Magnus Hörnqvist

Räkna med den ekonomiska brottsligheten: Om det kvantitativa studiet av ekonomisk brottslighet, Martin Bergqvist

Drug Discourses in Contemporary Russia: A Study of the National Press, NGOs and the Government, My Lilja

Rättsliga reaktioner på ungdomsbrott 1980-2005: Påföljdsval, uppsåtsbedömningar och kriminalpolitik, Sven Granath

Freedom in a bottle. Young Swedes on rationales and norms for drunken behaviour, Kalle Tryggvesson

2006

Moral concerns – Treatment and user perspectives on alcohol and drug problems, Jessica Palm

2005

Lag eller ordning?: Polisens hantering av EU-toppmötet i Göteborg 2001, Mikael Oskarsson

In a Man's World: Tolkninger av lovbrudd gjort i langtransportens yrkeskontekst, Vanja Lundgren Sørli

2004

Berättelser från en välfärdsstat: Om förståelse av marginalisering, Anita Rönnerling

Miljöbrott, myndighet och marknad: En studie om miljöstraffrätt och allmänprevention, Helena du Rées

2003

Tre perspektiv på brottsliga nätverk: Supporterbråk, etnicitet och genus, Tove Pettersson

Fånge i marginalen: Uppväxtvillkor, levnadsförhållanden och återfall i brott bland fångar, Anders Nilsson

Kriminalpolitikens väsen, Robert Andersson

Medling – möten med möjligheter. En analys av en nygammal reaktion på brott, Lise-Lotte Rytterbro

Brottslighetens geografi – en analys av brottsligheten i Stockholms län, Lars Dolmén

2001

Brott och straff i Sverige och Europa. En studie i komparativ kriminologi, Lars Westfelt

2000

Dödligt våld i Stockholm på 1500-, 1700- och 1900-talen, Maria Kaspersson

1999

Hatbrott?: homosexuella kvinnors och mäns berättelser om utsatthet för brott, Eva Tiby

Ungdomsbrottslighet som samhällsproblem: Utveckling, uppmärksamhet och reaktion, Felipe Estrada

Hem och skola, kamrater och brott, Jonas Ring