Agneta Mallén

PhD and Senior Lecturer | Director of studies

Sociology
Main research and teaching areas

• Criminology
• Sousveillance and citizen journalism
• Cybercrime
• Victimology
• Safety and fear of crime

Current research and teaching

Criminality in island communities

I am a member of the Nordic research working group Kriminalitet, frihedsberøvelse og kontrol i nordiske ø-samfund (Criminality, detention and control in Nordic island communities) that studies Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe islands and the Åland islands. Island communities are seen as special places that both offer their inhabitants a cultural otherness and entail geographical challenges because of isolation. These features also influence on the criminality and fear of crime in island communities.

The working group is financed by the Scandinavian Research Council of Criminology.

The working group is also presented on Oslo University’s website www.jus.uio.no 

Sousveillance and citizen journalism

Civilians film incidents with their mobile phones and spread the mobile film clips to social media and news media. This citizen journalism is often seen as a more democratic form of journalism, where the public contributes to the reporting, analysis and dissemination of news. Sousveillance, or “control from below”, takes place when the mobile phone filming is aimed at controlling control agents such as e.g. the police or security guards. However my research shows that citizen journalism can lead to cyber bullying.

A presentation of my research on YouTube

Cybercrime

I am chair of the Nordic research working group Cybercrime victimization in the Nordic countries. The aim of the working group is to study cybercrime victimization in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland.

The working group is financed by the Scandinavian Research Council of Criminology.

Teaching

I teach primarily on the first and third terms of the Criminology programme (kriminologiprogrammet) at Lund University. I also supervise bachelor theses.