Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with
people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that …

Många har bidragit till mitt arbete. Framlidne professor Kjell Nowak lade grunden genom
projektet Journalistik och Kriminalpolitik, finansierat av Humanistisksamhällsvetenskapliga …

In this article, we explore the relationship between the use of crime news and fear of
violence through multivariate analyses. Our main objective is to examine whether exposure …

The focus of this thesis is on social workers' role in assessing and making decisions in child
welfare cases. The primary aim is to identify factors that influence decisions concerning …

This article challenges the view that juvenile violence is rapidly increasing in Western
Europe. The studies portraying such an increase are far too reliant on official crime statistics …

The principle objective of this dissertation is to study the living conditions of prison inmates
from a resource perspective. The empirical section builds on a level-of-living survey of …

In February 1999, the Swedish Government authorised the Minister for Health and Social
Affairs, Lars Engqvist, to set up a commission of academic researchers and instruct them to …

In this article, we present findings of crime media research conducted in Finland during
recent years. As this body of research has mainly been published in Finnish, the core results …

Abstract Between April 1997 and November 1999, I followed eight socially excluded female
drug users in an attempt to describe their lives and living conditions. The study employs an …

The age of criminal responsibility in Sweden is fifteen. Offenders under age twenty are dealt
with in regular criminal courts. Some special policies apply to young defendants, including …