Amir Rostami

Amir Rostami is Professor of Criminology and Head of the Police Science Division at the School of Police Studies, Södertörn University, and Research Leader at the Institute for Futures Studies. He also (SMOB). In addition to his academic role, Rostami has several years of experience in law enforcement and has served as a Police Superintendent with the Swedish Police. In 2021, he was appointed by the Swedish Government as Inquiry Chair for the national investigation on welfare fraud, tasked with analyzing and proposing measures to counteract fraud within the Swedish welfare system.

Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s

European Journal of Criminology. doi.org/10.1177/1477370818820656 Abstract Hand grenade attacks have increasingly been reported in Sweden. However, to date no research on the topic exists. The present st

I Organization outside Organizations, red. Göran Ahrne. Cambridge Core. The book explores how various social settings are partially organized even when they do not form part of a formal organization. It

Trends in Organized Crime, pp 1–17, doi:10.1007/s12117-017-9310-y Abstract During the last decades, Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs (OMCs) have become a concern for crime prevention and law enforcement agencies

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119309., doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119309 Abstract The field of social network analysis has received increasing attention during the past decades and has been used to tackle a variety o

Social Science Research Abstract In this study we investigate organized crime by studying the degree of criminal organization. We use population-level register data on criminal suspicions between 2011 a

Global Crime vol. 23, no 2 Abstract Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have received increased atten-tion from both law enforcement agencies and the research com-munity. This study investigates the criminal

Trends in Organized Crime, pp 1–28, doi:10.1007/s12117-017-9315-6. Abstract We explore how the idea of partial organization can provide insights in the study of organized crime. Studying criminal organi

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, pp. 1-14, doi.org/10.1007/s10610-018-9387-0 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the