I am a PhD student at the Department of Criminology since 2021.

Research

My PhD project focuses on pre-trial detention in Sweden. Using a historical and socio-legal approach, it analyzes the legal regulation and practical implementation of remand as well as how remand policy has been negotiated and legitimized within national political discourse.

Teaching

I am, together with Christoffer Carlsson, in charge of the Department's introductory course in criminology on the undergraduate level. The topics I teach include critical criminology, conflict theory and theoretical perspectives on reactions against crime.

Cooperation

I work part-time for the Nordic Research Council in Criminology (NSfK) as the contact secretary for Sweden.

Publications

Lönnqvist, E. & Smith, PS. (2025). Innocent in theory, punished in practice: Assessing the punitiveness of Swedish and Danish pretrial practice. Incarceration. 

Lindell, C., Dynevall, M., Lönnqvist, E. & Starfelt Sutton, L. C. (2025). Mental health, out-of-cell activities, and misconduct among children and young adults on remand in Sweden before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Incarceration.

Lönnqvist, E. (2024). The politics of pretrial detention: Mapping the development of Swedish remand policy. Punishment & Society.

Lönnqvist, E. (2023). Prisoners of process: The development of remand prisoner rates in the Nordic countries. Nordic Journal of Criminology, 24(2): 1-19.

Lönnqvist, E. (2023). Remand imprisonment in the Nordic penal context: Use, development and consequences. Blog post on the Nordic Criminology Blog.

Conference presentation and webinars

ESC Annual Conference (European Society of Criminology), Athens, Greece 2025. Pre-trial detention in Scandinavia. 

Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden 2025. Innocent in theory, isolated in practice: Sweden’s pre-trial detention system.

Kriminologikonferensen, Oslo, Norway 2025. Pre-trial detention in Sweden: Practices, policies and politics.

EuroPris (European Organization for Prisons and Correctional Services), Webinar, Effective Implementation of Alternatives to Pre-Trial Detention (presenter and panelist).

EG Annual Conference (European Group for the study of deviance and social control), Turku, Finland 2023. Being, time and power: A critical phenomenology of the Swedish remand prison regime.

NSfK Research Seminar (Nordic Research Council for Criminology), Hämeenlinna, Finland 2022. Remand in the Nordic penal context: Use, development and consequences.

NSfK Research Seminar (Nordic Research Council for Criminology), Hveragerði, Iceland 2022. Remand imprisonment in the Nordic countries.