Search for dissertations about: "General Criminology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words General Criminology.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Locating place, crime and the fear of crime : methodological and theoretical considerations

   Author : Karl Kronkvist; Robert Svensson; Anna-Karin Ivert; Marie Torstensson Levander; Lieven Pauwels; Reka Solymosi; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Crime; criminology of place; fear of crime; micro-place; smartphone; unsafe locations; Kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : Much previous research on the fear of crime has focused on why some individuals, with certain characteristics, experience more or less fear of crime than others. However, there is also a growing body of research examining the role that the neighbourhood context in which individuals reside plays in shaping such feelings and perceptions. READ MORE

5. 3. Race and Order : Critical Perspectives on Crime in Sweden

   Author : Leandro Schclarek Mulinari; Anita Heber; Felipe Estrada; Benjamin Bowling; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Law and order; ideology; repression; racialization of crime; racial profiling; migration control; stop and search; Anti-terrorism measures; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : In this study questions of crime are used as a means to explore the relation between race and the social order. The aim is to empirically and theoretically expand the criminological understanding of racism as a structural phenomenon. READ MORE

6. 4. Symbols and emotions in Swedish crime policy discourse

   Author : Klara Hermansson; Anita Heber; Felipe Estrada; Peter Scharff Smith; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Crime policy; Sweden; symbols; emotions; Nordic exceptionalism; welfare state; elections; political parties; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : The general public has assumed an increasingly prominent position in crime policy discourse, both in Sweden and internationally. Nowadays crime policy initiatives often acknowledge and respond to the presumed concerns of the general public, for instance through the promise of safety. READ MORE

7. 5. The Plural Policing of Fraud : Power and the investigation of insurance and welfare fraud in Sweden

   Author : Anders Stenström; Janne Flyghed; Felipe Estrada; Adam Crawford; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Plural policing; Power; Insurance; Fraud; Sweden; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : There is a vast literature on plural policing and the ways in which non-governmental actors now have and are assuming more responsibility for crime control. This literature argues that the connection between policing and the state is being eroded, questioned and sometimes abandoned in favour of networks in which the state acts as one actor among many others. READ MORE