Olof BäckmanProfessor
Om mig
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 (2024) ‘The Effects of Replacing Incarceration with Electronic Monitoring on Crime, Mortality, and Labor Market Exclusion’. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-024-09595-2
Brännström, Lars, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman and Patrik Karlsson (2024) ‘Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out of-home care: A Swedish national cohort study.’ International Journal of Social Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12695 .
Gålnander, Robin, Olof Bäckman and Yerko Rojas (2024) ‘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. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae067.
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
Alm, Susanne and Olof Bäckman (2022) ' "When it rains it Pours": Housing Evictions and Criminal Convictions in Sweden'. European Journal of Criminology, 19(4): 612–631. DOI: 10.1177/1477370820905107
Al Weswasi, Enes, Fredrik Sivertsson, Olof Bäckman, Anders Nilsson (2022) ‘Does sentence length affect the risk for criminal recidivism? A quasi-experimental study of three policy reforms in Sweden’. Journal of Experimental Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09513-1
Estrada, Felipe, Olof Bäckman, Anders Nilsson (2022) ’Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015’. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5): 1213–1232. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac037
Sivertsen, Fredrik, Anders Nilsson and Olof Bäckman (2021) ‘Participation and Frequency in Criminal Convictions across 25 Successive Birth Cohorts: Collectivity, Polarization, or Convergence?’ Justice Quarterly, 38(6): 995-1018. DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2019.1699941
Bäckman, Olof, Felipe Estrada, Anders Nilsson, and Fredrik Sivertsson (2021) ‘Criminal Convictions and Immigrant Background 1973–2017 in Sweden – Have Differences Increased or Declined? Nordic Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1080/2578983X.2021.1900038
Bäckman, Olof, Felipe Estrada, Anders Nilsson, and Fredrik Sivertsson (2020) Den ojämlika brottsligheten. Rapport 2020:1. Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet.