Research subject Gender and crimes

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.

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

The project 'Debt and Desistance in the Welface State - Women's Experiences of Coping with Debt when Desisting from Crime' is a longitudinal, qualitative interview study. It is a continuation and extension of Robin Gålnander's dissertation project 'Maintaining Desistance', which was formally finished in 2020.

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.

Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of life behind in pursuit of something else, something unknown, something 'normal'.

How do men balance between being strong and independent on the one hand, but credible as victims on the other? The project examines three perspectives on victimisation during trials.

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.