Olof Bäckman
About me
I am a Professor of Criminology and Associate Professor of Sociology. My research concerns criminality, poverty, inequality, and social exclusion in a life-course perspective and how these processes interact with welfare state arrangements and other macro-level factors. Also causes and consqeuences of crime and reactions to crime fall within my research interests. I am involved in several research projects on these topics.
Al Weswasi, Enes and Olof Bäckman (2024) ‘The Effects of Replacing Incarceration with Electronic Monitoring on Crime, Mortality, and Labor Market Exclusion’. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-024-09595-2
Brännström, Lars, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman and Patrik Karlsson (2024) ‘Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out of-home care: A Swedish national cohort study.’ International Journal of Social Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12695 .
Gålnander, Robin, Olof Bäckman and Yerko Rojas (2024) ‘A Fresh Start or a False Dawn? Assessing the Crime-Preventive Effect of Debt Settlements for People with a History of Conviction’. British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae067.
Rojas, Yerko and Olof Bäckman (2024) ‘Parental over-indebtedness and youth crime in Swededn: a nation-wide register-based study’. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 15(2), 47-66. https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs152202422043
Alm, Susanne and Olof Bäckman (2022) ' "When it rains it Pours": Housing Evictions and Criminal Convictions in Sweden'. European Journal of Criminology, 19(4): 612–631. DOI: 10.1177/1477370820905107
Al Weswasi, Enes, Fredrik Sivertsson, Olof Bäckman, Anders Nilsson (2022) ‘Does sentence length affect the risk for criminal recidivism? A quasi-experimental study of three policy reforms in Sweden’. Journal of Experimental Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09513-1
Estrada, Felipe, Olof Bäckman, Anders Nilsson (2022) ’Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015’. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5): 1213–1232. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac037
Sivertsen, Fredrik, Anders Nilsson and Olof Bäckman (2021) ‘Participation and Frequency in Criminal Convictions across 25 Successive Birth Cohorts: Collectivity, Polarization, or Convergence?’ Justice Quarterly, 38(6): 995-1018. DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2019.1699941
Bäckman, Olof, Felipe Estrada, Anders Nilsson, and Fredrik Sivertsson (2021) ‘Criminal Convictions and Immigrant Background 1973–2017 in Sweden – Have Differences Increased or Declined? Nordic Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1080/2578983X.2021.1900038
Bäckman, Olof, Felipe Estrada, Anders Nilsson, and Fredrik Sivertsson (2020) Den ojämlika brottsligheten. Rapport 2020:1. Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet.
