2009. Social Forces 87(2): 713–740.

The Institute for Futures Studies is an institute for social science research focusing on issues deemed important for the future.

The study explores welfare governance in relation to disadvantaged areas in Sweden. The project aims to contribute with knowledge about how to build trust, promote safety, and break a negative societal development.

Carina Gunnarsonsresearch has primarily focused on social trust, and how this can be promoted in difficult environments through school and civil society. Empirically, her research is about the fight a

How much crime can foreign background explain? with Amber Beckley

Can the number of people with foreign background living in an area explain the level of crime in that same area? In this talk Amber Beckley gives us the numbers and finds a correlation that points cle

Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki is professor emeritus of general criminology at Stockholm University. He is a senior professor at the University of Gävle and Mid Sweden University and a researcher at the Institute for

This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

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Klas Markström

I am Associate Professor in Mathematics at Umeå University. My main area of research is graph theory and combinatorics. Here I study both deterministic structural problems and problems regarding the pr

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