Emeli LönnqvistPhD
About me
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. (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
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.
Research projects
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