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Elin Jönsson is a Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, specializing in corporate and state-corporate crime. Having recently defended her doctoral thesis in April 2024, she actively contributes to both teaching and research within the department's academic community.
Dr. Jönsson's primary research interests focus on analyzing crimes and harms committed by powerful actors including nation-states and corporations. Her work examines how these crimes are regulated across national and transnational arenas, with particular attention to access to justice. She employs qualitative methods and critical theoretical perspectives to explore the dynamics of corporate social responsibility, regulatory hardening, and corporate accountability mechanisms.
Her recent publications reveal a consistent scholarly trajectory examining how regulatory frameworks attempt to address corporate misconduct, with particular attention to the tensions between corporate interests and regulatory demands. Her work spans theoretical explorations of conflict theory to empirical analyses of regulatory systems like National Contact Points, demonstrating both theoretical depth and practical relevance to contemporary regulatory challenges.
Dr. Jönsson is an active member of two research groups at Stockholm University: the Green Criminology Group (established 2022), which focuses on crimes against animals and nature including environmental emissions and deforestation; and the Victimological Research Group (established 2021), which examines victims of crime from diverse perspectives.
In her teaching role, Dr. Jönsson focuses on 'crimes by the powerful,' critical criminological theory, law and regulation, and green criminology. Starting in fall 2024, she is responsible for undergraduate methods courses and supervises bachelor theses, mentoring the next generation of criminological researchers.
