Mats Christoffer Carlsson Associate Professor, Director of graduate studies
Contact
Name and title: Mats Christoffer CarlssonAssociate Professor, Director of graduate studies
Workplace: Department of Criminology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C 696Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 6
Postal address Kriminologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I received my PhD in 2014 and have been a senior lecturer in criminology since 2018. In the meantime, I worked as a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, in a study on organized crime, violent extremism, and criminal networks. Since 2022, I have been an associate professor in criminology.
Together with Emeli Lönnqvist, I am course coordinator for Introduction to Criminology at the undergraduate level, on campus, and also responsible for the same e-learning course. I also teach at the advanced level, primarily the course Controversies in Criminology. Since the autumn semester of 2025, I am been Director of Studies for advanced level studies.
My research has broadly focused on the role of crime in individuals' lives over time: why do people start committing crimes? Why do they stop? What do these processes look like? I have mainly explored these questions using qualitative methods, but I have also participated in several research projects that involve both the use of quantitative data and statistical methods of analysis.