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What can be understood, what can be compared, and what counts as context? Studying lawmaking in world history
In: Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg-Bondesson (eds.). Methods in world history. A critical approach. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Methods in World Historyis the first international volume
Increased Gun Violence Among Young Males in Sweden: a Descriptive National Survey and International Comparison.
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
Increased Gun Violence Among Young Males in Sweden: A Descriptive National Survey and International Comparison
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 25(4): 365-378 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the years 1996 to 2015 and compar
The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden
Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of
The Role of Education for Intergenerational Income Mobility: A comparison of the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden
Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita
Lone threats: a register-based study of Swedish lone actors
International Journal of Comparative and Appliced Criminal Justice Abstract This study investigates 30 lone actors in Sweden with a register-based design using a group of male lone actors and two refere
Gunn Birkelund: Gender discrimination in hiring
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, PhD in Sociology is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (since 1999). Her main publications cover labour marke
Childbearing and Psycho-Social Work Life Conditions in Sweden 1991-2000
This paper investigates the interaction between psycho-social work conditions and the likelihood of childbearing. For women, the results indicate that high-strain employees have a lower likelihood of
The Transition to Adulthood and the Ambivalence of Desistance
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology, eds. Arjan Blokland & Victor van der Geest, pp. 324—341. London: Routledge. The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course
Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010
Research report 2014/2, 78 p. This report studies child poverty, and changes in such poverty both by analyzing the family economy, and directly by using surveys with children themselves. It also compar
