I am a Professor of Criminology and since 2021 I work as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology. I am currently involved in a research project on consequences of imprisonment in Sweden. In a number of studies, I have also analysed aspects of the Monastery activities formerly operated in Swedish prisons. Additionaly, my research has included different aspects of social exclusion and social problems, predominantly eviction, drug abuse and poverty, and their association with childhood living conditions and with criminal offending. I have also done work on well-being and future orientation in youth and its determinants and consequences, and on childhood family relations and somatic as well as psychiatric ill-health in adulthood.
This project aims to examine the extent to which social, economic, and health-related adversities are transmitted across multiple generations – from parents, to children, to grandchildren – and whether processes reflecting resilience may break this reproduction of inequality.
The aim of this research programme is to study how social, economic, and health-related inequalities in the parental generation re-emerge in subsequent generations as well as the extent to which siblings and friends may explain or break this reproduction.
Swedish crime policy has, during recent years, become increasingly punitive in character. This has resulted in increasing numbers of interns in prison and pre-trial detention. The development raises questions with respect to positive and negative effects of punishment.
