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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden Institutionen För Kriminologi kr.
1. Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Drug policing of youth : examining pre- and post-stop conditions and outcomes
Sammanfattning : Given the strong focus on minor drug offenses in Swedish drug control policy and the risk of disparate drug enforcement that may follow from such policies, this thesis explores drug enforcement and the use of coercive measures (enforced drug tests and body searches) towards youths aged 15-20 years. The first study focuses on the circumstances of the detection of minor drug offenses, the grounds for suspicion and use of coercive measures. LÄS MER
3. Everyday life, crime, and fear of crime among adolescents and young adults
Sammanfattning : Drawing on lifestyle-routine activity theory, this dissertation explores associations between everyday life, crime, and fear of crime among adolescents and young adults. It also examines the operationalisation of the concepts of lifestyle and routine activities, and explores the use of experience methods, via a smartphone application named STUNDA, to collect data about everyday life. LÄS MER
4. Locating place, crime and the fear of crime : methodological and theoretical considerations
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
5. Open drug scenes and the merging of policing practice and research : a pracademic approach
Sammanfattning : Policing research has had an upswing as the evidence-based policing movement has grown stronger and entered police practises worldwide. Within the evidence-based policing (EBP) approach, practically and academically skilled individuals, pracademics, have attracted attention as facilitating the merging of policing practice and research. LÄS MER