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Robert Svensson

Professor Robert Svensson of Malmö University, Sweden, is collaborating with Principal Investigator Per-Olof Wikström on a series of papers relating to the role of morality, moral contexts and self-control in offending. They have published a cross-national comparative study on violence in English and Swedish youths.

Wikström P-O & Svensson R. (2008). Why are English youths more violent than Swedish youths? A comparative study of the role of crime propensity, lifestyles and their interactions in two cities. European Journal of Criminology 5(3): 309-330.

Background

Robert Svensson is Professor at the Faculty of Health and Society at Malmö University, Sweden. In 2004, he received his PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University. He then spent a year as a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. In 2008, he was appointed Associate Professor of Sociology (swe: Docent) by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University.

His main research interests include crime and deviance among adolescents, criminal careers, cross-national comparative research, and quantitative methods.

For more information see http://www.mah.se/HS_Robert_Svensson

Email: robert.svensson@mah.se

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