Criminology
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- Humanities-Social sciences
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Research in criminology at Örebro University is mainly conducted at the research center CAPS - center for Criminological And PsychoSocial research. The overall objective of the research conducted at CAPS is to produce practically useful research on antisocial, norm breaking, criminal behavior, and psychosocial adjustment and development in a broader sense. The current research areas and research questions are what define CAPS.
Current research areas are:
- Norm breaking/criminal behavior - Risk and protective factors and interventions.
- Psychopathic personality (psychopathy) - Measurement, development, risk and protective factors and association with antisocial/criminal behavior.
- Exposure to violence, bullying and neglect - Prevalence, consequences and interventions.
- Police methods and their effectiveness.
- Checklists and assessment instruments to improve psychosocial practice - development and evaluation.
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Research Projects
- Assessment of safety in the local community
- Authoring of handbook to SMADIT
- Bullying and harassment in school
- Checklists in police work to increase efficiency
- Community Intervention Teams (CIT)
- Consequences of Threats, Harassments and Stalking in the Modern Society
- Continuous crime prevention work
- Development and testing of ESTER
- Effective Coordination for Safety
- EMBRACE - Embrace Safety and Crime Reduction
- Evaluation of hot-spot policing
- Parent in prison: Child-parent-relationships when a parent is in prison
- Personality and Psychophysiology (The PoP-study)
- PETSS - Preschool TwinS in Sweden
- Research reviews of risk- and protection and effectiveness of interventions
- Retrospective Study of Young men and Womens' Experiences (The RESUMÉ project)
- Risk Management for Domestic Violence
- Safety and uniformed people
- Sofia likes school
- The GeoPred-study
- The IDA program
- The SOFIA-study