Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
SENIOR LECTURER
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand is senior lecturer, PhD in sociology (2005) and Associate Professor of Sociology/Docent (2011). Her areas of research include policing, private security, voluntary policing, marginalization, homelessness, crime victim support work.
Hansen Löfstrand is Director of the department's PhD programs.
Currently ongoing research Currently Hansen Löfstrand is conducting research within the following project:
- Geographies of home-based service interactions at the margins of welfare in Finland and Sweden (Academy of Finland, project leader Kirsi Juhila, University of Tampere, Finland)
- Body-worn cameras: Implications for the work environment of private security officers (AFA, project leader Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand). In this project, we investigate the use of body-worn cameras in the private security industry from a work environment perspective. The purpose is 1) to understand how the employees perceive and use the cameras and how it affects their work environment and 2) how companies and the industry regulate and handle the use.
Networks
- Member of the research group ‘Criminology and Sociology of Law’, at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg.
- Member of the research group ‘Governance’, at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg.
- Member of Women’s Homelessness in Europe Network (http://www.womenshomelessness.org/).
Teaching and tutoring Co-ordinates and teaches a qualitative methods course offered to PhD-students as part of third-cycle programmes at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Supervises at all levels, including PhD-students. Selected Publications
Lydahl, Doris and Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2020) Doing good: autonomy in the margins of welfare. Sociology of Health and Illness, doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13069 (E-pub ahead of print)
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2019) Marketization in a state-centred policing context: The case of Sweden, European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370819882905
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia and Uhnoo, Sara (2019) Blurred boundaries and legal uncertainty in police-volunteer partnerships, Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1628754
Uhnoo, Sara and Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2018) Voluntary policing in Sweden: media reports of contemporary forms of police-citizen partnerships, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2018.1439635
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia, Loftus, Bethan and Loader, Ian (2017) Private security as moral drama: a tale of two scandals, Policing and Society, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2017.1348354 (E-pub, ahead of print).
Juhila, Kirsi, Raitakari, Suvi and Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2017) Responsibilisation in governmentality literature, in: Juhila, K; Raitakari, S and Hall, C (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services, Routledge, pp. 11-34.
Juhila, Kirsi, Raitakari, Suvi and Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2017) Responsibilities and current welfare discourses, in: Juhila, K; Raitakari, S and Hall, C (eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services, Routledge, pp. 35-56
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia and Quilgars, Deborah (2016) Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European Level, in: Mayock, Paula and Breatherton, Joanne (eds.) Women's Homelessness in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-73.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2015) The Policing of a Homeless Shelter: Private Security Patrolling the Border of Eligibility. European Journal of Homelessness, 9(2): 17-38. http://www.feantsaresearch.org/IMG/pdf/lofstrand_ejh2-2015article1.pdf
Hansen Löfstrand C, Loftus B and Loader, I (2015) Doing 'dirty work': Stigma and esteem in the private security industry. European Journal of Criminology. First published on November 9, 2015 as doi:10.1177/1477370815615624
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia & Uhnoo, Sara (2014) Diversity Policing - Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden, Social Inclusion, 2(3): 75-87. Full text: http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/socialinclusion/article/view/40
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2013) Private security policing by ethnic matching in Swedish suburbs: avoiding and managing accusations of ethnic discrimination, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2013.817996. Fulltextlänk: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2013.817996
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2013) När säkerhet blir en marknadsvara: etnisk mångfald som resurs och problem för bevakningsföretag, i Peterson, Abby & Åkerström, Malin (red.) Den sorterande ordningsmakten. Studier av etnicitet och polisiär kontroll. Malmö: Bokbox.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia & Juhila, Kirsi (2012) The Discourse of Consumer Choice in the Pathways Housing First Model, European Journal of Homelessness, 6(2):47-68.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2012) On the Translation of the Housing First Model, European Journal of Homelessness, 6(2):175-182.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2012). Homelessness as Politics and Market. In: Larsson, B., Letell, M & Thörn, H. (Eds.) Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State. From Social Engineering to Governance? Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2012). "Brottsofferstöd som brottsprevention - riskprofilering och offret som förövare". I: Heber, Anita, Tiby, Eva & Wikman, Sofia (red.) Viktimologisk forskning. Brottsoffer i teori och metod. Lund: Studentlitteratur, s. 361-377.
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand (2012). "Homelessness as an Incurable Condition? The Medicalization of the Homeless in the Swedish Special Housing Provision". In: L'Abate, Luciano (Ed.) Mental Illnesses - Evaluation, Treatments and Implications. InTech, p.106-126. ISBN: 978-953-307-645-4.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2010). “Reforming the Work to Combat Long-Term Homelessness in Sweden”. Acta Sociologica 53 (1): 19-34.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2009). “Understanding Victim Support as Crime Prevention Work: The Construction of Young Victims and Villains in the Dominant Crime Victim Discourse in Sweden”. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 10 (2): 120-143.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia (2009). “Supporting Young Crime Victims: Discursive Environments and Formula Narratives”. Journal of Youth Studies 12 (6): 711-729.
Hansen Löfstrand, Cecilia & Nordfeldt, Marie (red.) (2007). Bostadslös! Lokal politik och praktik [Homeless! Local Policy and Practice]. Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB.
Löfstrand, Cecilia (2005). Hemlöshetens politik – lokal policy och praktik [The Politics of Homelessness – Local Policy and Practice]. Dissertation. Malmö: Égalité.
Löfstrand, Cecilia & Thörn, Catharina (2004). “The Construction of Gender and Homelessness in Sweden”. Open House International Journal 29 (2): 6-13.
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Devoted work without limits? Activities and premises of home visit work at the margins of community
care
Kirsi Juhila, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Suvi Raitakari
International journal of care and caring - 2020-01-01 -
Blurred boundaries and legal uncertainty in police-volunteer
partnerships
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Sara Uhnoo
Policing & Society - 2020-01-01 -
Doing good: autonomy in the margins of
welfare
Doris Lydahl, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Sociology of Health and Illness - 2020-01-01 -
Marketization in a state-centred policing context: The case of
Sweden
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
European Journal of Criminology - 2019-01-01 -
Doing good- normativities in the margins of
welfare
Doris Lydahl, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), New Orleans 4-7 September - 2019-01-01 -
Partnerskap mellan polis och medborgare: Polisens volontärer och Missing People
Sweden
Sara Uhnoo, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor - 2018-01-01 -
Private security as moral drama: a tale of two
scandals
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Bethan Loftus, Ian Loader
Policing and Society - 2018-01-01 -
Voluntary policing in Sweden: media reports of
contemporary forms of police–citizen
partnerships
Sara Uhnoo, Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention - 2018-01-01 -
Responsibilisation in governmentality
literature
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari
Juhila, K. Raitakari, S & Hall, C. (Eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services - 2017-01-01 -
Responsibilities and current welfare
discourses
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari
Juhila, K. Raitakari, S & Hall, C. (Eds.) Responsibilisation at the Margins of Welfare Services - 2017-01-01 -
Housing First as a Moral Tale and a Travelling
Idea
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kirsi Juhila
Den motspänstiga akademikern. Festskrift till Ingrid Sahlin - 2017-01-01 -
Policing as Politics and Market in
Sweden
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Keynote presentation at ESRC Public Policy Conference on Markets in Policing: The Appetite for and Organisational, Cultural and Moral Limits to Markets in Public Policing - 2016-01-01 -
Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European
Level
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Deborah Quilgars
Mayock, P. & Breatherton, J. (eds.). Women's Homelessness in Europe - 2016-01-01 -
Doing 'dirty work': Stigma and esteem in the private security
industry
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Bethan Loftus, Ian Loader
European Journal of Criminology - 2016-01-01 -
The Policing of a Homeless Shelter: Private Security Patrolling the Border of
Eligibility
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
European Journal of Homelessness - 2015-01-01 -
Private security policing by ‘ ethnic matching ’ in Swedish suburbs: avoiding and managing accusations of ethnic
discrimination
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy - 2015-01-01 -
Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in
Sweden
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Sara Uhnoo
Social Inclusion - 2014-01-01 -
När säkerhet blir en marknadsvara: etnisk mångfald som resurs och problem för
bevakningsföretag
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Den sorterande ordningsmakten : studier av etnicitet och polisiär kontroll / Abby Peterson & Malin Åkerström redaktörer - 2013-01-01 -
The Discourse of Consumer Choice in the Pathways Housing First
Model
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kirsi Juhila
European Journal of Homelessness - 2012-01-01 -
On the Translation of the Pathways Housing First
Model
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
European Journal of Homelessness - 2012-01-01 -
Homelessness as an Incurable Condition? The Medicalization of the Homeless in the Swedish Special Housing
Provision
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Mental Illnesses - Evaluation, Treatments and Implications, Luciano L'Abate (Ed.) - 2012-01-01 -
Brottsofferstöd som brottsprevention - riskprofilering och offret som
förövare
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Heber, Anita, Tiby, Eva & Wikman, Sofia (red.) Viktimologisk forskning. Brottsoffer i teori och metod. - 2012-01-01 -
Homelessness as Politics and
Market
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
In: Larsson, B., Letell, M., Thörn, H. (Eds) Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State. From Social Engineering to Governance? - 2012-01-01 -
Pseudo-solutions and facade renovations. The Gothenburg version of
homelessness
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Holgersson, Helena, Thörn, Catharina, Thörn, Håkan och Wahlström, Mattias (eds.) (Re)searching Gothenburg. Essays on a Changing City. Gothenburg: Glänta. - 2010-01-01 -
Skenlösningar och fasadrenoveringar. Hemlöshet på göteborgskt
vis
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Holgersson, Helena, Thörn, Catharina, Thörn, Håkan och Wahlström, Mattias (red.) Göteborg utforskat. Studier av en stad i förändring. Göteborg: Glänta. - 2010-01-01 -
Reforming the Work to Combat Long-Term Homelessness in
Sweden
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Acta Sociologica - 2010-01-01 -
Understanding Victim Support as Crime Prevention Work: The Construction of Young Victims and Villains in the Dominant Crime Victim Discourse in
Sweden
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention - 2009-01-01 -
Supporting Young Crime Victims: Discursive Environments and Formula
Narratives
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Journal of Youth Studies - 2009-01-01 -
Support to Young Crime Victims: Professional Discourse and Victim
Narratives
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
DANASWAC (Discourse and Narrative Approaches to Social Work and Councelling)-seminar, Aarhus, Denmark, 19-20 August, 2008. - 2008-01-01 -
"Det här är större än en mottagning" Utvärdering av Stödcentrum för unga brottsoffer i
Göteborg
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
- 2008-01-01 -
Hemlöshetens
politik
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Socialmedicinsk tidskrift - 2008-01-01 -
Platsen för "de utsorterade" i
Göteborg
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Bostadslös! Lokal politik och praktik - 2007-01-01 -
"Det är ju ofta drogen som är största boven" Missbruksvård som åtgärd mot
hemlöshet
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Bostadslös! Lokal politik och praktik - 2007-01-01 -
Bostadslös! Lokal politik och
praktik
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Marie Nordfeldt
- 2007-01-01 -
Inledning
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Bostadslös! Lokal politik och praktik - 2007-01-01 -
"Vi är oerhört unika" Träning i boende som åtgärd mot
hemlöshet
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Bostadslös! Lokal politik och praktik - 2007-01-01