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Criminology
Criminology is the scientific study of crime and its causes, which includes interventions to prevent and contain crime, as well as lessen its consequences.
Within criminological research significant weight is given, in part, to the understanding of how the interaction between individual, contextual and societal processes cause crime and related problems, whilst other areas address how work within crime prevention and insecurity can become knowledge-based. The research integrates theory and the empirical, and forms the basis for theory development and its application within areas designated to prevent and react to crime. The subject is interdisciplinary, which implies the collection and integration of theoretical and methodological concepts, and also applications from different knowledge fields.
The research covers an array of different questions that, on the whole, falls into four areas of focus. Within these subsequent areas there exist practical and applied elements.
Focus areas
The development of crime and its causes
On the whole, this research area aims to develop knowledge about which factors cause some children and adolescents in certain environments to develop into offending or other problems. This area studies how factors within different levels (e.g. individual, family, neighbourhood) interact to explain the differences in crime involvement, but also mental ill health, exposure to crime, insecurity and drug abuse. An important part of this area is longitudinal research, where we can follow the course of development over time in order to contribute to theory development about crime and its causes.
The geographical variation of criminality and insecurity
Research within this area deals with the identification of frameworks to confront the geographical variation of criminality and insecurity, as well as how we can explain why certain places and neighbourhoods have more problems with crime and insecurity than others. A central part of this research contributes to knowledge about how we can break from negative patterns and what we can do to contribute to positive community development.
Victimology
Victimology is the scientific study of crime victims and perspectives on crime victims in society. This area studies, for example, hate crime, crime against minority groups and other vulnerable groups, as well as violence against women. Vulnerability is studied from different perspectives, but together explores the contexts and individual factors like social contexts, ethnicity, gender and age.
Prevention and intervention research
Prevention research aims to increase knowledge about how we can best prevent crime and other related problems. Research within this area is conducted to create a knowledge base in support of interventions and expand prevention programs, but also to evaluate crime prevention or drug/alcohol abuse interventions. This research has a broad focus, extending from early interventions in childhood and adolescence to interventions that apply to criminal groups, individuals or specific vulnerable neighbourhoods.
Researchers, publications and projects
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2025 | Article in journal
Predicting Public Violent Crime Using Register and OpenStreetMap Data: A Risk Terrain Modeling Approach Across Three Cities of Varying Size
Karl Kronkvist, Anton Borg, Martin Boldt, Manne Gerell
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2024 | Article in journal
A study of security guard deployment and crime reduction in three locations in southern Sweden
Alberto P. Chrysoulakis, Manne Gerell, Niklas Jakobsson
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2024 | Article in journal
From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities
Carlos Arcila Calderón, Patricia Sánchez Holgado, Jesús Gómez, Marcos Barbosa, Haodong Qi, Alberto Matilla, Pilar Amado, Alejandro Guzmán, Daniel López-Matías, Tomás Fernández-Villazala
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2024 | Article in journal
The violence must stop: Authorities’ experiences of communicating anti-violence messages to violent groups in Malmö, Sweden
Anna Hedlund, Anna-Karin Ivert, Caroline Mellgren
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2024 | Conference paper
Criminal behavior among juvenile street gang members in theNordic countries: a cumulative risk factor perspective
Markus Kaakinen, Kim Moeller, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir
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2024 | Article in journal
Maintaining hope in partnership policing
Anders Stenström
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2024 | Conference paper
The Blind Spot: Assessing the increase in self-reported victimization among young Swedish women
Mika Hagerlid
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2023 | Article in journal
Fear of crime, crime and living conditions: a case study of Uppsala, Sweden
Nicklas Guldåker, Karl Kronkvist, Olof Gustavsson, Viktor Persson, Jennie Lindbergh, Thomas Niedomysl
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2023 | Conference paper
“ It’s illegal to buy drugs from the street dealers” : A Video-Based Study of a Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Dealers in Amsterdam
Peter Ejbye-Ernst, Kim Moeller, Lasse Liebst, Jo Thomas, Melissa Sexton, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
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2023 | Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary
Drug policing of youth: examining pre- and post-stop conditions and outcomes
Susanne Egnell
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Research project
From Bedside to Court Bench: Medical Expertise and Unintended Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation Policy and Legislation
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Evaluation of the Impact of GVI Implementation in Sweden
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Police work in security zones. Response, assessment, and effects.
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Experiences of (un)safety in everyday-life of children and youths
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Preventing sexual harassment in academia - reflections among university students
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When violence becomes an acceptable action alternative. An analytic criminology approach to advance our understanding of the causes of...
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Who is (un)safe? A study on individual characteristics and fear of crime
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Social Validation - A Study on the Socialization Process of Newly Arrived Children and Adolescents
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Organised Criminal Groups
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Project Omega: an analysis of the connections between criminal networks, fraud, and welfare crime.
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The role of the private sector and the civil society in crime prevention work – opportunities and challenges
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The geography of fear - Where and when do we experience fear and how can it be understood?
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Hate crime in the justice system: A study to improve the Swedish Police Authority’s capacity to identify and investigate hate crime
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Data-driven interdisciplinary methods to combat crime and fear using police CCTV
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Evaluation of the implementation of Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) in Malmö
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Stability and change – a comparative study of neighborhood level fear of crime
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Young womens self reported experiences of crime against person - the crime trend in Sweden 2006-2021
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Child-to-parent violence - a cross-sectional study
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Research project
"A hand appeared suddenly” – Experiences and reflections of sexual harassment among students and PhD-students
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Student participation in research teams – Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) in Biomedical, Criminology and Care Science research
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Applied research to prevent crime and reduce fear in Skåne, Sweden
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Evaluation of Sluta Skjut
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Assessing the crime preventive effects of a property owner collaboration in urban residential neighborhoods
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The Malmö Individual and Neighbourhood Development Study (MINDS)
marie.torstensson.levander@mau.se
Research environments
Doctoral studies in Criminology
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in Criminology.
Contact for doctoral studies in Criminology: Anna-Karin Ivert