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Research subject Crime trends

The extent of crime over time and space is one of the main areas of criminology and also something that the public has great interest in.

Stockholm university has a long tradition of research on the development of crime in both the short and the long term. An important theme concerns methodological issues, i.e. how we measure crime in different societies and at different points in history, but also how the development of crime may be explained.

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Criminology
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Researchers

Enes Al Weswasi

PhD

Department of Criminology
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Fredrik Sivertsson

Bitr lektor

Department of Criminology
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Olof Bäckman

Professor

Department of Criminology
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Anders Nilsson

Professor

Department of Criminology
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Felipe Estrada Dörner

Prefekt

Department of Criminology
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Research groups

Green Criminology

The Green Criminology Group was established in 2022 by researchers and PhD students at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. The group is united in an interest in crime and harm against animals and nature, which includes - but is not limited to - environmentally harmful emissions, crimes in the food industry and global deforestation.

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Quantitativ Criminology

The Quantitative Criminology Research Group was established in 2022. An interest in quantitative methods in criminology – its possibilities and limitations – is what unites the group.

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Research projects

Juvenile crime in Sweden

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.

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Promises and consequences in security technology

The project explores the emerging security technology ”security apps” (trygghetsappar) and the knowledge consequences that such technologies bring for questions of responsibility, (fear of) crime and citizen participation.

Smart phone och Digitalisering.
The Unequal Crime Drop

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.

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Doctoral studies

The Department of Criminology offers programs for postgraduate studies in Criminology.

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