Search for dissertations about: "CRIMINOLOGY"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the word CRIMINOLOGY.

  2. 1. Open drug scenes and the merging of policing practice and research : a pracademic approach

    Author : Mia-Maria Magnusson; Marie Torstensson Levander; Manne Gerell; Kim Moeller; Cynthia Lum; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Policing; crime; Open drug scenes; illicit drug markets; evidence based policing; pracademic; criminology; place based criminology; translational criminology; gun violence; crime concentration; crime mapping; Kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Policing research has had an upswing as the evidence-based policing movement has grown stronger and entered police practises worldwide. Within the evidence-based policing (EBP) approach, practically and academically skilled individuals, pracademics, have attracted attention as facilitating the merging of policing practice and research. READ MORE

  4. 2. Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach

    Author : Alberto P. Chrysoulakis; Marie Torstensson Levander; Anna-Karin Ivert; Alfonso Serrano Maíllo; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adolescents; collective efficacy; crime propensity; delinquency; mechanisms; morality; peers; rule-breaking; self-control; situational action theory; time-use; unstructured socialising; Kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Criminology has long been divided by mainly focusing on people’s propensities to commit crimes, on the one hand, and environmental characteristics conducive to crime, on the other. Such a division must be bridged to advance knowledge about why some people, but not others, commit rule-breaking acts in some environments but not in others. READ MORE

  5. 3. Foreign background and criminal offending among young males in Stockholm

    Author : Amber Beckley; Jerzy Sarnecki; Magnus Bygren; Torbjørn Skardhamar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigrants and crime; foreign background; criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis considers how factors from the home country, the family, and the individual impact the risk for criminal offending among young males from a foreign background residing in Stockholm. I use Swedish register data to examine the risk for police registered suspicion of criminal offending. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

    Author : Tea Fredriksson; Magnus Hörnqvist; Ingrid Lander; Michael Fiddler; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Abject; Uncanny; Haunting; Monstrous-feminine; Prison Studies; Narrative Criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they configure belonging and otherness through horror-iconography. READ MORE

  7. 5. Continuities and Changes in Criminal Careers

    Author : Christoffer Carlsson; Jerzy Sarnecki; Tove Pettersson; Peggy C. Giordano; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; life-course criminology; criminal careers; persistence; desistance; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : The best predictor of future criminal behavior is past criminal behavior. At the same time, the vast majority of people who engage in crime are teenagers and stop offending with age. READ MORE