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- Aaltonen, Mikko, et al.
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Comparing Employment Trajectories before and after First Imprisonment in Four Nordic Countries
- 2017
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 57:4, s. 828-847
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Employment plays a crucial role in the re-entry process and in reducing recidivism among offenders released from prison. But at the same time, imprisonment is generally regarded as harmful to post-release employment prospects. Little is known, however, about whether or not offenders’ employment trajectories before and after imprisonment are similar across countries. As a first step towards filling this gap in research, this paper provides evidence on employment trajectories before and after imprisonment in four Nordic welfare states: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Using data gathered from administrative records on incarcerated offenders, the analysis focuses on individuals imprisoned for the first time and who served a prison sentence less than one year in length. Results show that although employment trajectories develop in mostly similar ways before and after imprisonment across these countries, important differences exist.
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- Barker, Vanessa, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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This is Denmark : Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants
- 2021
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 61:6, s. 1540-1556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to mainstream criminology, Nordic societies with their generous welfare states are supposed to moderate, if not restrict, penal powers. In the case of migration, we see the opposite pattern. In Denmark, we see extended use of penal institutions and penal harms to contain and remove unwanted populations from the region, including proposals for a prison island and the confinement of migrants in 19th century prisons. To make sense of these developments and interpret its social meaning, we unpack the logic of the punishment–welfare nexus and Nordic exceptionalism. We find that Denmark expands penal power to regulate non-citizens, deter migration and uphold national interests. These repressive practices are not exceptions to the rule but rather illustrate the exclusionary edge and very nature of the penal regimes in Denmark, a Nordic welfare state.
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- Borrion, Hervé, et al.
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The Problem with Crime Problem-Solving : Towards a Second Generation Pop?
- 2020
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 60:1, s. 219-240
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his 2018 Stockholm prize winner lecture, Goldstein highlighted the need for problem-oriented policing (POP) to be not only effective but also fair. Contributing to the development of POP, this study examines how a wider perspective on problem-solving generally, and scoping in particular, can be adopted to address some of the growing challenges in 21st century policing. We demonstrate that the concept of ‘problem’ was too narrowly defined and that, as a result, many problem-solving models found in criminology are ill-structured to minimize the negative side-effects of interventions and deliver broader benefits. Problem-solving concepts and models are compared across disciplines and recommendations are made to improve POP, drawing on examples in architecture, conservation science, industrial ecology and ethics.
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- Branteryd, Fia, et al.
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Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare : Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press. - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 62:4, s. 948-964
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the role of immigration and racialization in creating the first Swedish victim support centre in the early 1980s. The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of the archives of Victim Support Sodertalje, the first lasting Swedish victim support centre, from 1983 to 1990. While many of the centre's activities focused on crime prevention, it defined crime and victimization as the province of immigrant communities in Sodertalje, and, notably, as outside-and aberrant from-the imagined racial community of Sweden. Thus, victim support centres were one of the mechanisms to continue to defend the ideals of the Swedish welfare state, but to do so in ways that prevented incursions within Swedish racial homogeneity from the outside.
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- Bäckman, Olof, et al.
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Locked Up and Locked Out? The Impact of Imprisonment on Labour Market Attachment
- 2018
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 58:5, s. 1044-1065
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates what effects a first prison sentence has on labour market inclusion, both by comparing those sentenced to prison to the population as a whole, and by comparing groups of convicted offenders. We utilize longitudinal data on criminal sanctions and earnings available for two complete birth cohorts of Swedish men (N = 107,337). These data enable us to compare the labour market attachment of prison inmates both before and after imprisonment. Results from propensity score matching show small negative effects of imprisonment on post-release labour market attachment. Moreover, we find no effect for those without pre-sentence labour market attachment. Thus, the negative effects are restricted to those with some labour market attachment before imprisonment.
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- Bäckman, Olof, 1965-, et al.
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The life course of young male and female offenders : Stability or change between different birth cohorts?
- 2014
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 54:3, s. 393-410
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Individuals’ life chances are shaped by the times and events that they experience. This emphasizes the need for studies that focus on staggered birth cohorts. The article presents a new longitudi-nal data set that includes three complete Swedish birth cohorts, born in 1965, 1975 and 1985. Comparisons between the different birth cohorts show how offending distributions among young offenders, as well as their socio-demographic backgrounds and life chances, have developed over time. The analyses of stability and change presented in the study may serve as a point of departure for more informed discussions of the significance of societal changes for the criminality and life chances of male and female offenders.
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- Carlsson, Christoffer, et al.
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A Life-Course Analysis of Engagement in Violent Extremist Groups
- 2020
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 60:1, s. 74-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this exploratory study, individuals’ processes of engagement in violent extremist groups are analysed by drawing from criminological life-course theory and narrative-based understandings of crime. Based on interviews with individuals who have participated in violent extremism, it is suggested that the process of engagement consists of three steps: (1) a weakening of informal social controls, followed by (2) an interaction with individuals in proximity to the group and (3) a stage of meaning-making in relation to the group and one’s identity, resulting in an individual’s willingness and capacity to engaging in the group’s activities, including violence. In future theorizing about processes of engagement in violent extremism, the meanings of age, and the life-course stages of late adolescence and emerging adulthood in particular, should be given analytic attention.
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- Carlsson, Christoffer, 1986-
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Using 'Turning Points' to Understand Processes of Change In Offending : Notes from a Swedish Study on Life Courses and Crime
- 2012
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 52:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Processes of within-individual change in offending and desistance from crime can be very complex, often involving multiple, context-specific processes. But even in a generous reading of much research on turning points, while this is theoretically stated or inferred, it is less often shown or illustrated in empirical cases. I explore processes of change in offending with the help of the concept of ‘turning points’, through life story interviews conducted in the Stockholm Project, trying to make use of the possibilities inherent in qualitative inquiry. I show how life course processes and the turning points that emerge within them are often interdependent on each other, emerging in very context-specific circumstances, and need to be studied and understood and such. Future research areas are suggested.
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- Engdahl, Oskar, 1974, et al.
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Duties to Distrust: the Decentring of Economic and White-Collar Crime Policing in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 56:3, s. 515-536
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines a general trend towards the ‘decentring’ of the policing of economic and White-collar crime in Sweden in recent decades. As a theoretical point of departure, we discuss how the ‘decentred policing’ concept can link the theoretical approaches of regulation and policing studies. We then analyse five empirical cases in which private actors have been given duties and incentives to report others’ crimes, in order to give a detailed account of the expansion and effects of the decentring of business and finance policing. The five cases concern the policing of bankruptcy crimes, money laundering, company management crimes, market abuse and insider dealings, and illegal cartels. The article ends by discussing some possible causes and consequences of this tendency.
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- Engdahl, Oskar, 1974
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The Role of Money in Economic Crime
- 2008
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Ingår i: The British Journal of Criminology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0007-0955 .- 1464-3529. ; 48:2, s. 154-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers how money can motivate crime, influence the opportunity structure governing its occurrence, and serve as a practical instrument facilitating it. Existing theories are engaged based on their assumptions that money (1) fosters attitudes that reduce moral questions to technical problems; (2) gives rise to feelings of self-sufficiency that cause people to become detached from one another and from the webs of social obligation that counteract crime; and (3) diminishes the risk of being caught and makes illegal transactions easier. In addition, the argument also introduces the notion of money as a manoeuvre by which to evade entanglement in emotionally straining and risky social relations in which openness can negatively affect status and life project.
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