Tove Pettersson

Tove Pettersson

Associate Professor, Criminology

Tove Pettersson is a researcher at the Department of Criminology och affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Associate Professor in criminology at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, and member of Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integrations Studies (SULCIS). She received her doctorate at Stockholm University. Her current research areas are police research, youth compulsory care and youth custody, and networks and “gangs”.

Publications in selection:

• Pettersson, Tove. 2010. “Recidivism Among Young Males Sentenced to Prison and Youth Costody” Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention Vol 11, 151-168.
• Pettersson, Tove. 2005. “gendering delinquent networks. A gendered analysis of violent crimes and the structures of boys and girls co-offending networks” YOUNG Vol, 13, 247-267.
• Pettersson, Tove. 2003. “Ethnicity and violent crime. The ethnic structure of networks of youths suspected of violent offences in Stockholm” Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention Vol 4, 154-172