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Julia Kristin Sandahl is a Researcher at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University, where she also teaches courses in criminological methods, crime prevention, and supervises bachelor's and master's theses.
Her research focuses on understanding juvenile crime through a socio-structural lens, particularly examining how school context influences youth offending. Dr. Sandahl specializes in quantitative criminology methods and has developed expertise in multi-level analysis of school environments. Her work challenges the predominantly individual-level approaches to studying the school-crime relationship by emphasizing contextual factors and structural mechanisms related to student composition.
Analysis of her publications reveals a consistent focus on contextual approaches to understanding crime, with particular attention to how structural and social aspects of school environments interact with individual characteristics to influence offending behavior. Her research employs sophisticated multi-level methodologies to examine how school contextual factors like concentrated disadvantage, social cohesion, and future prospects affect youth crime patterns across Stockholm schools.
Dr. Sandahl actively supervises undergraduate and graduate students through thesis guidance and teaches specialized courses including Metod, Kriminologi II and Brottsprevention. She has secured research funding from FORTE for her ongoing project examining how crime prevention initiatives directed at schools are received, interpreted, and practiced by school staff.
She is a member of the Quantitative Criminology Research Group established in 2022, which focuses on the possibilities and limitations of quantitative methods in criminology. Her current research projects include 'Att bära ansvaret – röster från skolan om att vara samhällets viktigaste brottsförebyggare' (Bearing Responsibility - Voices from Schools about Being Society's Most Important Crime Preventers), 'Långsiktiga utfall av alternativa sanktioner för unga lagöverträdare' (Long-term Outcomes of Alternative Sanctions for Young Offenders), and collaborative work with Stockholm City's Social Services Department on crime prevention.
