Crime, Control and Culture
Broadening the study of crime and crime control
Crime, Control and Culture is a research group based at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, aiming at broadening the study of crime and crime control.
The group draws on a variety of social science methods and theories to explore the human and non-human agents involved in crime and crime control, as well as the wider social, cultural and technological structures in which these agents are embedded.
The group meets several times per semester and organizes a cultural criminology conference once a year at Lund University.
Questions explored in the group include:
- What constitutes a crime?
- How do people involved in crime experience and explain their own actions?
- How do victims experience and make sense of the crimes they have suffered?
- How do police officers and other agents of control operate beyond laws and regulations?
- How do new technologies, political debates and media coverage influence the way crime is undertaken and controlled?
These are but a few of the questions discussed in the research group’s on-going seminars and publications.
The group has a firm footing in qualitative methods, especially ethnography, but also draws on quantitative methods to ensure in-depth, cross-disciplinary coverage of the topics explored.
Contact
Please get in touch with any of us if you would like to learn more about the Crime, Control and Culture research group (Kriminalitet, kontroll och kultur), or if you are interested in joining the group.
Members of Crime, Control and Culture
Most members of Crime, Control and Culture are sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists from Lund University, but experts from other disciplines and parts of the world are also listed among its members.
Researchers at the Department of Sociology, Lund University
Stina Bergman Blix
Susanne Boëthius
Christofer Edling
Lisa Flower
Malin Fransberg
Alison Gerber
Antoinette Hetzler
Måns Lundstedt
Cecilia Nordquist
Tove Westberg
David Wästerfors
Malin Åkerström
Petra Östergren
Other members
Oriana Quaglietta
Camilla Winde Gissel, Phd Student. Oslo University
Filippa Flaherty, PhD student. Linné University.
Hakan Kalkan, Roskilde University