Search for dissertations about: "crime"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 225 swedish dissertations containing the word crime.

  2. 21. Short- and Long-Term Influences of Education, Health Indicators, and Crime on Labor Market Outcomes : Five Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

    Author : Elisabeth Lång; Ali M. Ahmed; Judy Rich; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; health indicators; crime; labor market outcomes; family background; twins; field experiments;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how several individual characteristics, namely education (years of schooling), health indicators (height, weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise), criminal behavior, and crime victimization, influence labor market outcomes in the short and long run. The first part of the thesis consists of three studies in which I adopt a within-twin-pair difference approach to analyze how education, health indicators, and earnings are associated with each other over the life cycle. READ MORE

  4. 22. Hatbrott? : homosexuella kvinnors och mäns berättelser om utsatthet för brott

    Author : Eva Tiby; Malin Åkerström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Bias crime; fear of crime; gay; gender; hate crime; heterosexism; homophobia; homosexuality; lesbian; lifestyle; victimology; victim studies; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : During the nineties, the hate crimes concept has been used to describe victimization on the basis of group characteristics. The Swedish penal Code 29:2:7 states that crimes committed against a person due to that person's race, color, nationality, ethnicity, religious beliefs or other similar circumstances, such as a person's sexual orientation, can elicit a more severe punishment than crimes without such motives. READ MORE

  5. 23. Criminal Organizing : Studies in the sociology of organized crime

    Author : Amir Rostami; Fredrik Liljeros; Christofer Edling; Petter Gottschalk; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organized crime; Criminal organizing; Social order; Mafia; Gang; Network; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : What organized crime is and how it can be prevented are two of the key questions in both organized crime research and criminal policy. However, despite many attempts, organized crime research, the criminal justice system and criminal policy have failed to provide a shared and recognized conceptual definition of organized crime, which has opened the door to political interpretations. READ MORE

  6. 24. 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

  7. 25. 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