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1. 1. Essays on Inequality and Social Policy : Education, Crime and Health

   Författare :Susan Niknami; Eskil Wadensjö; Anders Stenberg; Miles Corak; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Alcohol laws; Crime; Delinquency; Education; Health; Immigrants; Income inequality; Intergenerational Transmission; Relative Income Differences; Substance use; Quasi-experiment; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four empirical essays. The first essay evaluates the impact on crime of a large scale experimental scheme in which all state monopoly alcohol stores in selected Swedish counties kept open on Saturdays. We show that the experiment significantly raised both alcohol sales and crime. LÄS MER

3. 2. Miljöbrott, myndighet och marknad : En studie om miljöstraffrätt och allmänprevention

   Författare :Helena du Rées; Janne Flyghed; Kimmo Nuotio; Jonas Ebbesson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental crime; corporate crime; environmental penal law; environmentally hazardous activities; general prevention; control theory; techniques of neutralisation; Criminal law; Straffrätt;

   Sammanfattning : Penal law has long been of central interest to the political debate on environmental regulation. The objective of this dissertation is to examine the role of penal law as a means of controlling environmentally hazardous economic activities. The focus of the work is directed at the general preventive effects of the threat of penal sanctioning. LÄS MER

4. 3. Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach

   Författare :Alberto P. Chrysoulakis; Marie Torstensson Levander; Anna-Karin Ivert; Alfonso Serrano Maíllo; Malmö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adolescents; collective efficacy; crime propensity; delinquency; mechanisms; morality; peers; rule-breaking; self-control; situational action theory; time-use; unstructured socialising; Kriminologi; Criminology;

   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

5. 4. Violent crime : addressing causation with family-based methods

   Författare :Thomas Frisell; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : Violent crime is an important public health problem, and incurs major costs for society. The effect of interventions has so far been modest, often attributed to a research focus on risk factors for crime, but a relative lack of understanding of the causal mechanisms behind these factors. LÄS MER

7. 5. Frihet under kontroll : Om kontroll i åkerinäringen

   Författare :Lotta Pettersson; Henrik Tham; Anne Alvesalo; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Road haulage industry; trucking; formal control; neutralizations; masculinities; occupational crime; criminality; Criminology; Kriminologi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation, based on two studies, examines the significance of formal control, i.e. the actors and agencies whose formal task involves the use of a range of measures to exercise control within the road haulage industry. LÄS MER