Professor
Sociology
Research interests
- Cultural criminology
- Adminstrative orientation
- Gifts vs corruptions
- Qualitative methods
Teaching
Sociological criminology, qualitative methods
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Betrayal : Towards a Sociology of Threachery
Malin Åkerström
(2024) Dark Emotions : Difficult Emotional Experiences in Social and Everyday Life , p.118-133
Book chapterWhy Meetings Matter : Everyday Arenas for Making, Performing and Maintaining Organisations
Patrik Hall, Malin Åkerström, Erika Andersson Cederholm
(2024)
BookBeing family and friends to abused women–a qualitative study of digital media in intimate partner violence.
Susanne Boethius, Malin Åkerström
(2023) People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life , p.25-41
Book chapterThe double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology
Susanne Boethius, Malin Åkerström, Margareta Hydén
(2022) European Journal of Social Work
Journal articleThe etiquette of bribes–learning, teaching and knowing
Joakim Thelander, Malin Åkerström
(2022) Nordic Journal of Criminology, 23 p.231-246
Journal articleAmbivalenta offernarrativ : Unga män, etnicitet och maskulinitet
Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm, Malin Åkerström
(2021)
BookEthnographic discoveries after fieldwork on troubled youth
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors
(2021) Doing Human Service Ethnography , p.171-189
Book chapterHidden Attractions of Administration : The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents
Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson, Erika Andersson Cederholm, David Wästerfors
(2021) Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations
BookSensitive Stuff and Expressive Caution: Notes on the Research Process in Studies of Ethnicities Associated with Crime
Malin Åkerström, Veronika Burcar Alm
(2021) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 11 p.265-283
Journal articleEthnographic discovery after fieldwork with troubled youth
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors
(2021) Doing Human Service Ethnography , p.171-189
Book chapterHvorfor og hvordan vi elsker byråkrati
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors, Katarina Jacobsson, Erika Andersson Cederholm
(2021) Stat&Styrning, 31 p.32-35
Journal articleAmbivalent and Consistent Relationships: The Role of Personal Networks in Cases of Domestic Violence
Elisa Bellotti, Susanne Boethius, Malin Åkerström, Margareta Hydén
(2021) Social Inclusion, 9 p.211-221
Journal articleRevealing hidden realities : disclosing domestic abuse to informal others
Susanne Boethius, Malin Åkerström
(2020) Nordic Journal of Criminology, 21 p.186-202
Journal articleMeetings or Power Weeks? Boundary Work in a Transnational Police Project
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors, Sophia Yakhlef
(2020) Qualitative Sociology Review, 16 p.70-84
Journal articleEmotion Management Where Emotions Shouldn't Be
Malin Åkerström
(2019) Symbolic Interaction, 42 p.732-734
Review"Producing People" in Documents and Meetings in Human Service Organizations
Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson
(2019) Social Inclusion, 7 p.180-184
Journal article (comment)The Merry-Go-Round of Meetings : Embracing Meetings in a Swedish Youth Care Project
Malin Åkerström
(2019) Sociological Focus, 52 p.50-64
Journal articleRuled by the Calender? : Public sector and university managers on meetings, calenders and time
Malin Åkerström, Joakim Thelander
(2019) Sociologisk Forskning, 56 p.149-165
Journal articleMötesboken : Tolkningar av arbetslivets sammanträden och rosévinsmingel
Malin Åkerström, Vesa Leppänen, Patrik Hall
(2019)
BookRefraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background.
Malin Åkerström, Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm
(2018) Nordic Social Work Research
Journal articleMötesstrider och dokumentkamp i ungdomsvården
Malin Åkerström
(2017) Den motspänstiga akademikern , p.233-257
Book chapterPolicing Migration: Described and Observed Cooperation Experiences of Police and Border Guards in the Baltic Sea Area
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2017) Journal of Applied Security Research, 12 p.117-140
Journal articleEtnicitet: ett engagerande men delikat samtalsstoff – brottsutsatta unga mäns återberättade erfarenheter : Ethnicity: an involving topic demanding expressive caution - Young male crime victims' narratives
Malin Åkerström, Veronika Burcar Alm
(2016) Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 22 p.245-263
Journal articleWith a little help from my friends : relational work in leisure-related enterprising
Erika Andersson Cederholm, Malin Åkerström
(2016) The Sociological Review, 64 p.748-765
Journal articleStruggling for One's Name: Defense Narratives by those Accused of Small-Time Corruption
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors, Katarina Jacobsson
(2016) Sociological Focus, 49 p.148-162
Journal articleRisk, Safety and Freedom of Movement
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2016) Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, 1 p.175-175
Journal articleBetydelser av etnicitet i vardagen på särskilda ungdomshem
Malin Åkerström, Jesper Hambert
(2016) Institutionsvård i fokus, 2016
BookProject Turnstone: Successful Collaboration and Collaboration Obstacles in Police, Border, and Coast Guard Cooperation
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2015) Network for Research in Criminology and Deviant Behavior
BookProtecting European Borders: Changing Border Police Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Area
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2015) Social Studies, 9 p.5-24
Journal articleCase history discourse. A rhetoric of troublesome youngsters and faceless treatment
David Wästerfors, Malin Åkerström
(2015) European Journal of Social Work
Journal articleHjalmar Bergman-Gåvans sociologiska ambivalens
Malin Åkerström
(2015) Sociologi genom litteratur: Skönlitteraturens möjligheter och samhällsvetenskapens begränsningar , p.52-63
Book chapterProtecting European Borders: Changing Border Police Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Area
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2015) Proceedings 10th International Conference of the Albanian Institute of Sociology (AIS) , p.104-105
Conference paper: abstractProject Turnstone: Freedom of Movement and Passenger Experiences with Safety and Border Control in the Baltic Sea Area
Sophia Yakhlef, Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2015) Network for Research in Criminology and Deviant Behavior
BookThe Crises Model: A Socially Useful Psychologism
Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson
(2015) Qualitative Sociology Review, XI p.232-245
Journal articlePolicing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Practice of Exclusion
Malin Åkerström, Peterson Abby
(2014) Social Inclusion, 2 p.1-4
Journal articleEnforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
Malin Åkerström
(2014) Punishment & Society, 16 p.600-602
ReviewReanalysis of Qualitative Data
David Wästerfors, Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson
(2014) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis , p.467-480
Book chapterServicemötets gnissel och skav
Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katarina Jacobsson, Vesa Leppänen, Filippa Säwe, Malin Åkerström
(2014)
BookInterviewees with an agenda – Learning from a 'failed' interview
Katarina Jacobsson, Malin Åkerström
(2013) Qualitative Research, 13 p.717-734
Journal articleCuriosity and Serendipity in Qualitative Research
Malin Åkerström
(2013) Qualitative Sociology Review, IX p.10-18
Journal articleKänsliggörandet av etnicitet i forskning
Malin Åkerström
(2013) Den sorterande ordningsmakten , p.37-68
Book chapterMoraliteter i svensk ungdomsvård
Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors
(2012) Kontrollens variationer , p.73-89
Book chapterMutblickens medierättegångar - skandalernas offer
Malin Åkerström
(2012) Viktimologisk forskning - brottsoffer i teori och metod , p.225-246
Book chapterMöteskultur i ungdomsvården
Malin Åkerström
(2011) Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 18 p.186-205
Journal articleBalancing Contradictory Identities — Performing Masculinity in Victim Narratives
Veronika Burcar Alm, Malin Åkerström, David Wästerfors
(2011) Sociological Perspectives
Journal articleBetydelsen av etnicitet - unga brottsoffers gestaltningar
Veronika Burcar Alm, Malin Åkerström, Anna Rypi
(2010)
ReportRöster från socialtjänsten
Goran Basic, Malin Åkerström
(2009) Vårdkedja för ungdomar eller professionella? En processutvärdering av projektet ”Motverka våld och gäng”, Forskningsrapport 2009:5 p.193-223
Book chapterExpressing and Examining Morality in Everyday Life: Social Comparisons among Swedish Parents of Deaf Children
Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson
(2009) Qualitative Sociology Review, 5 p.54-69
Journal articleVårdkedja för ungdomar eller professionella? En processutvärdering av projektet ”Motverka våld och gäng”
Goran Basic, Joakim Thelander, Malin Åkerström
(2009) Forskningsrapport
ReportNegotiating a Victim Identity: Young Men as Victims of Violence
Veronika Burcar Alm, Malin Åkerström
(2009) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 10 p.37-54
Journal articleDen administrativa hållningen - En tidstypisk orientering bland samordnare i ungdomsvårdens projektvärld?
Malin Åkerström
(2009)
Working paperDiscovering Homo Administratus – coordinators / caseworkers in juvenile care
Malin Åkerström
(2009)
Conference paperMedia som diskursiv bakgrundsmusik
Malin Åkerström
(2008) Medier, brott och den aktiva publiken : en antologi om brottsrapportering och kreativ medieanvändning
Book chapterUtspel, samtalsspiraler och tabun
Malin Åkerström
(2008) Medier, brott och den aktiva publiken : en antologi om brottsrapportering och kreativ medieanvändning
Book chapterDen ifrågasatta gåvan: bistånd i adoptionssammanhang
Malin Åkerström
(2007) Tvärsnitt - om humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning
Journal articleReview of ”Between Worlds: Deaf Women, Work and the Intersection of Gender and Ability”
Malin Åkerström
(2007) Contemporary Sociology, 36 p.225-226
ReviewCoola offer - Unga mäns balansering av brottsofferidentiteten
Malin Åkerström
(2007) Brott i välfärden - festskrift till Henrik Tham
Book chapterDoing Ambivalence: Embracing Innovation – at Arm’s Length
Malin Åkerström
(2006) Social Problems, 53 p.57-74
Journal articleBehandling som rekvisita i anstaltens interaktioner - Symboliska resurser i samtal om modernt fängelseliv
David Wästerfors, Malin Åkerström
(2006) Behandling i socialt arbejde
Book chapterDoing ambivalence: Embracing policy innovation - At arm's length
Malin Åkerström
(2006) Social Problems, 53 p.57-74
Journal article”Vi har bestämt att han är döv!” Medicinsk diagnos eller kulturell identitet?
Malin Åkerström
(2005) Tvärsnitt - om humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning , p.16-19
Journal articleSociologin som försvann- en uppvisning i missvisande urval
Felipe Estrada, Sven-Åke Lindgren, Malin Åkerström
(2004) Sociologisk Forskning , p.31-37
Journal articleReanalysis of Earlier Collected Material
Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson, David Wästerfors
(2004) Qualitative research practice , p.902-942
Book chapterÄldre som ideala brottsoffer?
Håkan Jönson, Malin Åkerström
(2004) Sociala problem och socialpolitik i massmedier , p.93-126
Book chapterNeglect of elderly women in feminist studies of violence—a case of ageism?
Håkan Jönson, Malin Åkerström
(2004) Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 16 p.47-63
Journal articleOm en sociologs sätt att använda medier
Malin Åkerström
(2002) Mångfald i medieforskningen , p.49-2002
Book chapterSlaps, Punches, Pinches -- But not Violence: Boundary Work in Nursing Homes for the Elderly
Malin Åkerström
(2002) Symbolic Interaction, 25 p.515-536
Journal articleDet motspänstiga offret
(2001)
BookRecension av Hedda Giertsens avhandling
Malin Åkerström
(2001) Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab, 2001 p.350-350
ReviewNär anhöriga involveras : personalens beskrivning av anhöriga på särskilda ungdomshem
Maria Bangura Arvidsson, Malin Åkerström
(2000) Forskningsrapport / Statens institutionsstyrelse, FOU-enheten
ReportRecension av Eva Tibys avhandling "Hatbrott – homosexuella kvinnors och mäns berättelser om utsatthet för brott
Malin Åkerström
(2000) år 2000 , p.52-59
ReviewPolice Persuasion: Making Battered Women File a Complaint
Malin Åkerström
(1998) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 12 p.62-73
Journal articleThe Moral Crusade on Violence in Sweden - Moral panic or material for small talk indignation?
Malin Åkerström
(1998) The new European criminology: crime and social order
Book chapterWaiting: A Source of Hostile Interaction in an Emergency Clinic
Malin Åkerström
(1997) Qualitative Health Research, 7 p.504-520
Journal articleTriader och typifieringar - Anhöriga som sociala verktyg, kunskapskällor, medbehandlare och "extra-patienter"
Malin Åkerström
(1996) Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 3 p.287-299
Journal articleKriminalitet, kultur, kontroll
(1996)
BookCrooks and Squares - Lifestyles of Thieves and Addicts in Comparison to Conventional People
Malin Åkerström
(1995)
BookDilemman i frivilligjourer: exemplen kvinnojourer och brottsofferjourer.
Malin Åkerström
(1990)
ReportThe Social construction of snitches
Malin Åkerström
(1988) Deviant Behavior, 9 p.155-167
Journal articleOutcasts in Prisons: the Cases of Informers and Sex Offenders
Malin Åkerström
(1986) Deviant Behavior, 7 p.1-12
Journal article
Research projects
- Meeting cultures
- Call the police? A study of social networks' responces to domestic violoence
- Pecuniary sensitivity in narratives about foster care