Jerzy Sarnecki (; born 7 July 1947) is a

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and

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criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

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. Sarnecki was born in 1947 in

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. His family is

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. During the

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, his father was fired, allegedly because he was Jewish. He studied

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in Poland and earned a Ph.D. in

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

in 1978. During his studies he also worked part-time at several youth recreation centres in Stockholm. From 1977 to 1986, he worked as a researcher at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, where he focused on

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. He was the head of Division at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention from 1986 to 1993, when he became a professor in criminology at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. He was the head of the Department of Criminology from 1993 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2003. He is also engaged at the Gävle University College,

Södertörn University Södertörn University ( sv, Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college ( sv, högskola) located in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In ...

and at the

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. Sarnecki has also served as a member of the Scientific Commission of the

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from 2000 to 2005 and as vice-president of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology since 2005 and president of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology since 2004. Sarnecki lives in

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in Stockholm. Sarnecki is frequently invited to comment on current affairs by

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broadcaster

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and has participated in the programs Radio P4, Godmorgon, världen!, Dagens Eko, and Tankesmedjan. In February 2018, he stated in an interview with magazine ''Forskning & Framsteg'' that the increasing levels of gun crime in Sweden had taken him, Swedish criminologists in general and police in Sweden "by surprise". In August 2018, in an interview with public broadcaster SVT, Sarnecki said that the

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(an

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TV show) episode where reporters analysed the nationality of convicted rapists should never have been broadcast and criticized the reporters for making a connection between rape crime and ethnicity. He further argued that it is impossible to explain rape with cultural factors. In a 2018 interview, Sarnecki stated that both he and his fellow researchers in Sweden were to blame for there having been no research on why immigrants are overrepresented as convicted rapists in Sweden. He stated that he was planning research to investigate the reasons why immigrants are overrepresented in crime, with a focus on sexual and violent crime. He also stated, in view of earlier research that he thought that the major reason would be socioeconomic factors.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarnecki, Jerzy 1947 births Living people People from Warsaw Academic staff of Stockholm University Swedish criminologists Polish emigrants to Sweden 20th-century Polish Jews Swedish Jews