PhD-candidate
Sociology
Main research areas
- Criminology and methodology:
How are crime statistics measured and operationalized?
How can crime statistics be read and understood?
What are the political implications and effects of how we measure crime?
How does the criminological research discourse impacts and covariate with the political debate about crime?
Current research
I am currently working on my PHD-thesis, a project about how fear of crime is measured and operationalized. The project aims to study how the term ”fear of crime” is used in political debate, and the synergy between its usage and policy implications.
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
The Emergence, Establishment och Expansion of Fear of Crime Research in Sweden
Hanna Sahlin Lilja
(2021) Lund Dissertations in Sociology, 1
Dissertation"Otrygghet" i politisk kommunikation : En begreppslig jämförelse och analys av 1970 and 2010-talen
Hanna Sahlin-Lilja
(2018) Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab, 105 p.170-170
Journal article