Pub Date : 2014-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.969920
Henrik Tham
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Pub Date : 2014-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.957002
Venla Salmi, Petri Danielsson
Most scholars agree that low socio-economic status is associated with an elevated risk for violent victimization as well as offending. Nevertheless, it has been suggested that certain forms of violence—particularly intimate partner violence (IPV)—are more equally distributed in the population, not concentrating on the lower social strata as strongly as other forms of violence. In this paper, we examine the association between financial strain, measured on the household level, and two different types of victimization: IPV and violence committed by a person unknown to the victim. The analysis is based on the 2013 sweep of Finnish National Crime Victim Survey (n = 6,999), a nationally representative survey incorporating a mix of postal and web-based survey methodology. Multivariate analyses indicate that the risk for both kinds of victimization is highest among those who report financial difficulties. Moreover, the association between IPV and financial strain appears stronger when less serious violent incidences are excluded from the analysis.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2013.864841
N. Gausel, M. M. Thørrisen
Even though some people are associated with a single stigmatized group, others are associated with several. In order to shed light on such multiple stigma processes, we propose a theoretical model of ‘multiple stigma’ by describing how two stigma-related categories (having intellectual disabilities and being an inmate) merge into a third stigmatized category (being an inmate with intellectual disabilities) that makes it possible to be ostracized for each of these three. We describe how this extensive ostracism is associated with negative psychological problems and antisocial responses. Consequently, we discuss some possible implications for the criminal justice system and future research.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2013.869857
F. Fors, D. Hansén
This research takes an interest in the police's capacity to learn and adapt in an ongoing policy failure. Using the literature on organizational learning and adaptation, it investigates how the police combine exploration of new possibilities and exploitation of old certainties. This article delves into the Swedish police's adaptation to a wave of organized and aggravated robberies that in the years around 2005 seemed out of control. It argues that the Swedish police need to create organizational ambidexterity by implementing a mix of exploitation and exploration, as well as engaging societal actors external to the police when old practices run dry. This means that the law and order sector needs to refine their competences, utilize new ideas, and promote innovation from companies and other authorities for dealing with the tasks at hand. Furthermore, the organizational theory tool-box has proven that it has great potential for diagnosing current learning and adaptation efforts within the law and order sector, as they happen.
{"title":"Pressured to learn? Swedish police experiences of curbing organized crime","authors":"F. Fors, D. Hansén","doi":"10.1080/14043858.2013.869857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2013.869857","url":null,"abstract":"This research takes an interest in the police's capacity to learn and adapt in an ongoing policy failure. Using the literature on organizational learning and adaptation, it investigates how the police combine exploration of new possibilities and exploitation of old certainties. This article delves into the Swedish police's adaptation to a wave of organized and aggravated robberies that in the years around 2005 seemed out of control. It argues that the Swedish police need to create organizational ambidexterity by implementing a mix of exploitation and exploration, as well as engaging societal actors external to the police when old practices run dry. This means that the law and order sector needs to refine their competences, utilize new ideas, and promote innovation from companies and other authorities for dealing with the tasks at hand. Furthermore, the organizational theory tool-box has proven that it has great potential for diagnosing current learning and adaptation efforts within the law and order sector, as they happen.","PeriodicalId":88919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian studies in criminology and crime prevention","volume":"15 1","pages":"19 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14043858.2013.869857","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60279876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.883175
T. Skardhamar
How common are convictions? The stigma of a criminal record can have serious social and financial consequences for the individual. It is a fundamental question in relation to any policy how many people will be affected by it. For example, if it is desirable to make sentencing generally stricter, or restrict ex-offenders' employment opportunities, how many people will that apply to? Little is known about how many people acquire a criminal record over their life-course. In this paper, I apply life-table methods to a synthetic cohort to calculate the lifetime conviction risk. The findings show that a substantial proportion of the population will be convicted of a crime at some point. Not surprisingly, the figures for men are substantially higher than for women.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.898981
A. Skar, S. von Tetzchner, C. Clucas, L. Sherr
Purpose Parenting programmes are rarely part of prisoners' rehabilitation, and evaluations of such programmes are lacking. Methods The present mixed-methods study investigates the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) with 25 incarcerated fathers and a comparison group of 36 community fathers through questionnaires administered before and after parenting courses. Interviews with 20 incarcerated fathers were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Before the course, the prison group self-reported better parenting skills and poorer psychosocial health than the comparison group. Both groups improved on parenting strategies. On several measures the comparison group improved, while the prison group revealed the same or lower scores. The incarcerated fathers described becoming more aware of their paternal role but also saw the course as emotionally challenging. Conclusions Some of the self-reported scores of the prison participants related to parental skills and psychosocial health decreased from ‘before’ to ‘after’ ICDP sensitization, pointing to the possibility that the ICDP courses may have contributed to overcoming a ‘prisonization process’, where the prisoner identity overshadows the parental identity, by making them more aware of their parental responsibilities. Due to the emerging possibility of counter-productive influences, a randomized controlled study is needed in the future to ascertain the parenting and recidivism-related effects of this programme.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2013.864840
F. Estrada, Janne Flyghed, Anders Nilsson, Karin Bäckman
The objective of this article is to analyse the structure of, and trends in, reported occupational safety crimes. The central focus is directed at analysing how we might understand the substantial increase in the number of reported offences witnessed during the first decade of the 21st century. In order to analyse trends in occupational safety crimes we proceed from both official crime statistics and data that have been compiled specifically for the purposes of this study, including a nationally representative sample of offence reports relating to the occupational safety crimes reported to the police. The results show that the increase in reported offenses is primarily due to a shift in definitions and in the reactions of the authorities rather than to a powerful increase in the number of actual crimes committed. This leads to the conclusion that registered occupational safety offences should first and foremost be viewed as a measure of the work of the authorities, rather than as an indicator of real crime trends.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.898985
Janne Kivivuori
All criminologists know the main international scientific societies of the field: American Society of Criminology (ASC), European Society of Criminology (ESC), and the International Society for Criminology (ISC). In addition, the European Group structures the international co-operation of critical criminologists, and there are networks within specific sub-domains of criminology (such as police research and prison research). Many Nordic criminologists are active in these societies and networks, as well as in national societies which may co-operate with one another. But there is no such thing as a Nordic Society of Criminology (NSC); nor do I recall anyone suggesting that such a society could or should exist. The main reason for this is probably the very effective and successful functioning of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology (SRCC). The annual SRCC research seminars fulfill the same function as the annual society meetings of the ESC and ASC, bringing Nordic criminologists together to share their work and ideas with one another. In addition to holding annual research seminars, the SRCC also funds research and publishes this Journal together with key partners from the Nordic countries. There are multiple arguments against the creation of a new society. Who needs an additional framework when the ESC, the SRCC, and the European Group already exist? The Stockholm Criminology Symposium is the most recent newcomer to the supply of international networking options. There clearly is an abundance of society meetings available to an internationally active criminologist. It would be difficult to find a date in the calendar for any additional conference. Indeed, a new society could be counter-productive by decreasing the Nordic involvement in the ESC and the ASC. This would be a bad result as it could feed parochial and isolationist mentalities. But how active are the Nordic criminologists in the ESC and the ASC, for instance? Active membership is probably a good indicator of commitment. The ESC statistics for 2012 (ESC Newsletter 2/2013) indicate that the society had 18 members from Norway, the same number from Sweden, and 13 from Finland. Since Denmark and Iceland did not appear in the statistics, they had fewer than 10 members. If Denmark and Iceland had (let us say) five members each, there would have been 59 Nordic ESC members. This is fairly many; in 2012 only the UK, Belgium, Germany, and the US had more ESC members. Of course, the picture might be different if the number of Nordic members were to be contrasted with the number of professional criminologists in each country. Judging from the Nordic figures, the Finnish ‘ESC membership rate’ among criminologists appears to be particularly high. The member directory of the American Society of Criminology (as inspected on 8 February 2014) shows eightmembers fromSweden, two from each of Finland andNorway, and one Dane. Apart from Sweden, these figures sound fairly low to me, given the histor
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.886892
M. Pedersen
This paper examines gang joining among juveniles in socially disadvantaged residential neighbourhoods with gang presence. The analysis is based on a school-based survey among students (n = 1,886) in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The theoretical framework is inspired by the Eurogang Program of Research—that is, their definition of street gangs was utilized in the study. The results indicate that 13% of the youths aged 13–17 are members of street gangs. The street gang members are more likely to be characterized by poor parental monitoring, weak pro-social values, and high-risk lifestyles compared with other crime involvement groups, including serious offenders; and they commit a disproportionately large number of offences. The results also indicate that proximity to criminal gangs on a higher organizational level than street gangs increases willingness to join such criminal gangs, especially for street gang members, as they are more likely to be in contact with older and more powerful gang members already—for example, they have helped them by being a look-out or passing messages.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2014.893479
Lotta Jägervi
The aim of this article is to analyse how self-presentation is performed in victim narratives and what possible variant features are present in the narratives. This is examined by means of narrative analyses of face-to-face interviews with crime victims (n = 6). The narratives were grouped into two categories: 1) narratives about the crime victim as an established citizen, and 2) narratives about the crime victim as an outsider. How the narrators presented their status in society was relevant for how they understood the offender, the crime, and Victim Support. Importantly, the interviewed victims did not construe themselves as ‘ideal victims’ as they all projected personal strength in their self-presentations. Furthermore, the victim narratives normalized (rather than idealized) the victim while construing the offender as in need of treatment. The article concludes by discussing future research needs and the role of victim self-presentations for psychological well-being and trust in the criminal justice system.
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