Jag är professor i kriminologi och docent i sociologi. Min forskning handlar främst om kriminalitet, fattigdom, ojämlikhet och social exkludering i ett livsförloppsperspektiv samt hur sådana processer påverkas av välfärdsstatens organisering och andra faktorer på samhällsnivå. Även orsaker till och konsekvenser av brottslighet och straffrättsliga påföljder ryms inom mina intresseområden. Jag är involverad i flera forskningsprojekt som på olika sätt rör dessa teman.

Jag undervisar framför allt om forskningsmetoder.

Senaste publikationer

Al Weswasi, Enes and Olof Bäckman (2025) ‘The Effects of Replacing Incarceration with Electronic Monitoring on Crime, Mortality, and Labor Market Exclusion’. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 41(2): 135-172

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-024-09595-2

Kahlmeter, Anna and Olof Bäckman (2025) ‘Justice by Priveilege? Social inequality in waivers of prosecution among youth’. Journal of Criminal Justice. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102497

Sivertsson, Fredrik, Mikko Aaltonen, Olof Bäckman

, Pekka Martikainen

, Felipe Estrada, Joonas Pitkänen, Anders Nilsson, and Karoliina Suonpää (2025) ’Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden’. European Journal of Criminology. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708251335533

Brännström, Lars and Olof Bäckman (2025) ’Vicitimization in Youth Living in Foster Family Care: Gender-Specific 

Prevalence and Trends 2002-2022’. 

Nordic Journal of Criminology. 26(2), 1-17. 

https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.26.2.5

Seker, Süheyla, Glena Hossein, Olof Bäckman, Ylva Brännström Almquist, and Lars Brännström

 (2025) ‘Offending and psychiatric disorders from age 20 to 63 among individuals with and without past experience of out-of-home care in Sweden: A prospective multi-trajectory cohort study’. Development and Psychopathology. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942510062X

Nilsson, Anders, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson (2025) ‘Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: is there increasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders from different social backgrounds?’, in: Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie (eds.), Handbook on Crime and Inequality. 

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Glad, Johan, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman, Torbjörn Forkby and Gunnel Hedman Wallin (2025) ’Rehabilitative Measures as a Legal Response for Adolescents Convicted for Drug Offences: The Swedish System’. 

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

https://doi.org/10.1177/14550725241295469

Brännström, Lars, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman and Patrik Karlsson (2025) ‘Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out of-home care: A Swedish national cohort study.’ International Journal of Social Welfare. 34(2): e12695. 

https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12695

Gålnander, Robin, Olof Bäckman and Yerko Rojas (2025) ‘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. 65(3): 598-617.  

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae067

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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