Violent Extremism and Organized Crime in Sweden 2

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The aim of the project is to study violent organizing, antisocial careers and the intersection between organized and ideologically motivated crime. The central questions are how these milieus arise and evolve over time and how they interact with each other: What attracts individuals to them? What social function do radical ideas and violence have for the formation of groups within these milieus? We want to identify mechanisms underlying the formation of such milieus, as well as factors critical to the process by which individuals are steered into them. The project is primarily based on a database containing records from the Swedish Police, the Swedish Security Service , the National Council for Crime Prevention, Statistics Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare, the Swedish Companies Registration Office and the National Board of Forensic Medicine. The records have been supplemented by the results of an interview study unrelated to the database.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Correlates of Crime / 23. Gangs and Co-offenders

Individual Presentations

• Analyses of disengagement: The dimensions of disillusion and violence - Christoffer Carlsson, Stockholm University / Swedish Institute for Futures Studies

• Women in and around violent extremism - Christofer Edling, Lund University & Swedish Institute for Futures Studies; Amir Rostami, Stockholm University / Swedish Institute for Futures Studies; Hernan Mondani, Stockholm University / Swedish Institute for Futures Studies

• Organized antagonism. The nexus between organized crime and violent extremism in Sweden - Amir Rostami, Stockholm University / Swedish Institute for Futures Studies

• Network perspective on organized violence - Hernan Mondani, Stockholm University / Swedish Institute for Futures Studies

Chair

• Jerzy Sarnecki, Stockholm University