This study seeks to investigate the significance of gender, ethnicity and social class when decisions of compulsory care of young people are being made. Throughout history, the control of boys have concerned their externalizing behaviour while control of girls primarily has focused on restricting and disciplining their sexual behaviour.

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.

A Swedish Birth Cohort to Age 65

Criminal careers from adolescence to retirement age in individuals with experience of out-of-home care: prevalence, patterns and intergenerational associations (CRIMCAR)

Juvenile delinquency is one of the central problem areas both in criminological research and in Swedish public debate. Several of Sweden experts on juvenile delinquency are involved in this book project, which has been ongoing since 2001.

The project “Long-term outcomes of alternative sanctions for youths in conflict with the law: the influence of individual resources and social context”’s overall aim is to add knowledge about alternative sanctions for young offenders and assess their links to future life chances.

Youths sentenced to youth custody constitutes a small group but with high levels of previous crimes, many previous social difficulties and a high risk of recidivism. But which factors are important for lower or higher re-offending? And what pre-release activates are planned for the youths?

In the proposed project we intend to investigate the development of crime and changes with respect to its risk factors, structure and distribution.

The research program is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Criminology (Stockholm University), the Department of Social Work (Stockholm University), and the Social Affairs Administration of the city of Stockholm. The research will span over six years, starting in the fall of 2024.

The Crime Drop represents one of the most unexpected social changes in the Western world in recent decades. Contemporary criminological research has therefore been focusing on trying to unfold the driving forces of this development.

Out-of-home care (OHC; foster-family care and residential care) experience is linked to numerous negative life-course outcomes, including poor health, premature death, criminal involvement and poor employment prospects. However, it remains unclear to what extent adolescents living in foster-family care have elevated risks for victimization compared to peers

The project has shed light on women's crime as a social problem and studied society's attention to, understanding of and reaction to women's crime. The overall purpose has been to 1) analyze the development of women's crime, 2) study the image of the criminal woman and the emergence of women's crime as a social problem.