Per-Åke Nylander
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: per-ake.nylander@oru.se
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About Per-Åke Nylander
Took BA in Social Work in 1978 and MA in Social Work in 1996. Employed as qualified social worker from 1978 to 1993, in the social services, probation services, schools and drug abuse treatment programs. Took his PhD in Social Work in 2011 on the dissertation "Managing the Dilemma. Occupational Cultures and Identities among Prison Officers". Reader, and Senior Lecturer in Social Work. Have lectured in two different social work programs, from 1993 and on. Created, lead lectured the 10 weeks University Course for Prison Officers, a part of their regular training from 2002 to 2012. Have run courses and lectured in Criminology from 2011 and on.
The research concerns prison and probation work, drug abuse treatment and social work in residential care and treatment. Participated in the following projects:
2005-2006 Prison officers and Prison work
2007-2010 Prison officers - occupational cultures, occupational identities and job satisfaction
2012-2014 Prison-based Drug Treatment in the Nordic Countries
2015-2016 Childhood with a parent in prison
Participate in two international networks, one on confinement research and the other on emotion research. Co-author in six published anthologies on prisons, and about a dozen journal articles. Belong to a prison research section in research group ProSA at Örebro University, and collaborate with CAPS research group in Criminology.
Research projects
Completed projects
- Parent in prison: Child-parent-relationships when a parent is in prison
- Prison Officers - Occupational culture, occupational identity and job satisfaction
- Prison based drug treatment in the Nordic prisons. Control and rehabilitation in welfare state institutions
- Towards professionalism? Two Scandinavian countries two ways to develop the Prison Officer role
Publications
Articles in journals |
Chapters in books |
Conference papers |
Daily newspapers |
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |
Manuscripts |
Reports |
Articles in journals
- Nylander, P. Å. & Bruhn, A. (2023). Emotionellt arbete och belastning i fängelsearbete: utvecklingen över tid. Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, 29 (3-4), 27-41.
- Zhao, X. , Nylander, P. Å. & Bruhn, A. (2023). Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups. Psychology, Crime and Law.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Lindberg, O. & Holm, C. (2020). Prisoners’ Experiences of Prison Drug Treatment: what matters?. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 17 (1), 6-18.
- Källström, Å. , Hellfeldt, K. & Nylander, P. Å. (2019). Parental imprisonment, child victimization and adult problems. European Journal of Criminology, 16 (6), 671-688.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Källström, Å. & Hellfeldt, K. (2018). After a childhood with a parent in prison: Relationships and well-being as a child and young adult. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 14 (1), 34-45.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Hellfeldt, K. & Källström, Å. (2018). Att ha haft en förälder i fängelse under uppväxten - har det betydelse senare i livet?. Tidskrift för kriminalvård, 73 (2), 9-11.
- Bruhn, A. , Nylander, P. Å. & Johnsen, B. (2017). From prison guards to… what?: Occupational development of prison officers in Sweden and Norway. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 18 (1), 68-83.
- Nylander, P. Å. (2016). Det hotade kontaktmannaskapet?. Tidskrift för kriminalvård, 71 (4), 4-6.
- Nylander, P. Å. (2015). Drug treatment in a Swedish women's prison: relations and identities among prison officers and prisoners. Probation Journal, 62 (3), 234-250.
- Giertsen, H. , Nylander, P. Å. , Asmussen Frank, V. , Kolind, T. & Tourunen, J. (2015). Prisoners' experiences of drug treatment and punishment in four Nordic countries. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 32 (2), 145-164.
- Holm, C. , Lindberg, O. , Jukic, E. & Nylander, P. Å. (2014). Flera nyanser av blått: Kriminalvårdare på behandlingsavdelningar - deras beskrivningar av yrkesroller, drogbehandling och de intagna. Nordisk Tidskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 101 (2), 183-204.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Holm, C. , Jukic, E. & Lindberg, O. (2012). Drug treatment in Swedish prisons: moving towards evidence-based interventions?. Nordic studies on alcohol and drugs, 29 (6), 561-574.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Lindberg, O. & Bruhn, A. (2011). Emotional labour and emotional strain among Swedish prison officers. European Journal of Criminology, 8 (6), 469-483.
- Bruhn, A. , Nylander, P. Å. & Lindberg, O. (2010). The prison officer's dilemma: professional representations among Swedish prison officers. Les Dossiers des sciences de l'education, 23 (1), 77-93.
- Nylander, P. Å. , Bruhn, A. & Lindberg, O. (2008). Säkerhet eller rehabilitering?: Om subkulturell differentiering bland kriminalvårdare. Arbetsmarknad och arbetsliv, 14 (3), 45-62.
Chapters in books
- Bruhn, A. & Nylander, P. Å. (2024). Farewell to Exceptionalism: An Analysis of Swedish Prisons Officers' Attitudes Towards Prison Policy, Organisation, and Their Occupational Rolen in 2009 and 2019. In: Helen Arnold; Matthew Maycock; Rosemary Ricciardelli, Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work (pp. 325-348). Cambridge: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Nylander, P. Å. & Bruhn, A. (2020). The Emotional Labour of Prison Work. In: Phillips, J., Waters, J., Westaby, C. and Fowler, A., Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology (pp. 69-84). London: Routledge.
- Hellfeldt, K. , Källström, Å. & Nylander, P. Å. (2018). Efter en barndom med en förälder i fängelse: Hälsa, utsatthet och sociala relationer. In: Annelie Björkhagen Turesson & Annika Staaf, Kriminalvården: Innanför och utanför (pp. 177-188). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
- Nylander, P. Å. & Holm, C. (2018). Kontaktmannaskap, säkerhet och behandling i svenska fängelser - vilka professionella relationer är möjliga?. In: Bruhn, Anders & Källström, Åsa, Relationer i socialt arbete: I gränslandet mellan profession och person (pp. 202-217). Stockholm: Liber.
- Bruhn, A. , Lindberg, O. & Nylander, P. Å. (2017). Treating Drug Abusers in Prison: Competing Paradigms Anchored in Different Welfare Ideologies: The Case of Sweden. In: Scharff Smith, Peter & Ugelvik, Thomas, Scandinavian penal history, culture and prison practice: Embraced by the welfare state? (pp. 177-204). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bruhn, A. , Nylander, P. & Lindberg, O. (2015). Swedish ‘prison exceptionalism’ in decline: trends towards distantiation and objectification of the Other. In: Eriksson, Anna, Punishing the other: the social production of immorality revisited (pp. 101-124). London & New York: Routledge.
- Bruhn, A. , Lindberg, O. & Nylander, P. Å. (2011). A harsher prison climate and a cultural heritage working against it: sub-cultural divisions among Swedish prison officers. In: Thomas Ugelvik, Jane Dullum, Penal exceptionalism?: Nordic prison policy and practice (pp. 215-231). Abingdon: Routledge.
Conference papers
- Bruhn, A. , Nylander, P. Å. & Johnsen, B. (2014). Professionalization of prison officers in Sweden and Norway: two routes, two different goals?. Paper presented at The 7th Nordic Working Life Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 11-13, 2014.
- Nylander, P. (2013). Prison anti-drug treatment in a women’s prison: prescribed and negotiated identities. Paper presented at 13th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, "Beyond Punitiveness. Crime and Crime Control in Europe in a Comparative Perspective", Budapest, Hungary, September 4-7, 2013.
- Bruhn, A. & Nylander, P. Å. (2013). Professionalization of prison officers in Sweden and Norway: two routes, two different goals?. Paper presented at ISA RC52 "Professional Groups" Interim Conference Challenging Professionalism, New Directions in Policies, Publics and the Professions, Lisbon, Portugal, November 28-30, 2013.
- Nylander, P. Å. (2011). Prison officers in differentiated prisons: signs of occupational or organizational professionalisation?. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology (ASC), 63rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, November 16-19, 2011.
- Nylander, P. Å. (2010). The transition of the prison officer role in late-modern prisons: the case of Sweden. Paper presented at 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), San Francisco, USA, November 17-20, 2010.
- Bruhn, A. , Lindberg, O. & Nylander, P. Å. (2009). A harsher prison climate and a cultural heritage working against it. Paper presented at Scandinavian studies of confinement research network seminar, Oslo, Norway, October 22-23, 2009.
- Bruhn, A. , Lindberg, O. & Nylander, P. Å. (2009). Emotional labour and emotional strain in late-modern prison work. Paper presented at 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2-5, 2009.
- Nylander, P. Å. (2009). Subcultural divisions among prison officers: the case of Sweden. Paper presented at Scandinavian Studies of Confinement (SCC) Research Network Seminar, Oslo, Norway, October 22-23, 2009.
Daily newspapers
- Bruhn, A. & Nylander, P. (2015). Synen på brott och straff har blivit inhuman. ETC.
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Nylander, P. Å. (2011). Managing the dilemma: occupational culture and identity among prison officers. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Manuscripts
Reports
- Bruhn, A. & Nylander, P. Å. (2018). Quality employment and quality public services in prisons: Rapportdel: Sweden. Leuven, Belgium: (EU-rapport. Research commissioned by EPSU, University of Leuven ).
- Bruhn, A. , Nylander, P. Å. & Lindberg, O. (2013). Fyra korta artiklar om kriminalvård. Örebro: (Working Papers and Reports Social work 2).
- Lindberg, O. & Nylander, P. Å. (2000). Kriminalvård: en inventering av behoven inom forskning, utbildning och verksamhet. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Skrift / Örebro universitet, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och omsorg 4).