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The full lectures of the 2025 Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners can be found here. criminologysymposium.com

Henrik Örnlind (Linnéuniversitetet Linnaeus University, 🇸🇪) presents an ongoing study about the increasing gang related gun violence in Sweden. Aim is to identify logics and mechanisms behind and identify potential solutions with professionals and former gang members. #sthlmcrimsymposium

Emilio José Hernández (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 🇪🇸) demonstrates in his paper that penal populism is a short-term strategy for governments that undermines long-term public trust. #sthlmcrimsymposium

Ariana Zimmermanns (University of Groningen, 🇳🇱) has examined how women with connections to ISIS are prosecuted under 🇩🇪 anti-terrorism laws. Court interpretations have blurred line between membership and support, risking criminalization of passive actions.#sthlmcrimsymposium

Low self-control, high technology preoccupation, prior online deviant behavior, computer skills and online deviant peers correlates of hacking behavior, according to preliminary results on risk factors for juvenile cybercrime perpetration, by Susan Pelgröm (Utrecht University, 🇳🇱).

Prize ceremony 2025 soon to start.

Gunnar Strömmer, 🇸🇪’s Minister for Justice, to the 2025 Stockholm Prize in Criminology laureates and gathered criminologists: As researchers you are entitled to expect politics to show interest in your results, and balance it with practicalities, values, ideas, expectations etc.

Maya Lahav (University of Oxford, UK) is studying how social media platforms have become complex ecosystems where traffickers recruit, manipulate and advertise victims with increasing sophistication. Understanding how is crucial for creating safe online spaces and disrupting trafficking.

Nissi P Monsegue (Broken Walls Victim Advocacy, 🇹🇹) at #sthlmcrimsymposium: "Everyone looks at the offender and forgets that they're victims as well. No one wakes up one day and decides to be an offender."

Per-Albin Johansson (Tryggare Sverige, 🇸🇪) presented HackShield Future Cyber Heroes, a 🇳🇱 initiative that utilises gamified storytelling to equip children with the skills to identify and protect themselves against online dangers, fostering ethical digital discussions with parents

Gordon Crews (@UTRVG, 🇺🇸) talks about how doomscrolling—the act of continuously consuming negative news—heightens individuals’ perceptions of danger. And concept of Mean World Syndrome, where people due to media exposure perceive the world more dangerous than it actually is.

20 years ago, philanthropist Jerry Lee was in many ways instrumental in creating the Prize. To his honor, a Jerry Lee lecture is held every year at #sthlmcrimsymposium. This year Lawrence Sherman & Jerzy Sarnecki present some conclusions from these first years, with Lee present.

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Interesting by A/Prof Nadine M. Connell is on sabbatical (Griffith University, 🇦🇺) in study examining how online interactions contribute to offender radicalization: Online interactions do not introduce a new reality. They offer interpretations to reinforce why current perception of reality as unjust is correct.

Student panels at #sthlmcrimsymposium: Elina Böhlin&Linnea Gustafsson’s thesis (Gävle University🇸🇪) shows that Swedish gangster rappers and record companies played role in binding the network together, sometimes even revealing music collaborations between conflicting gangs

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Prize winner Frances Crook interviewed in Dagens ETC. Dagens ETC etc.se/inrikes/hon-ae…

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