Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 328260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia Hansen |
| FAMILY NAME | Löfstrand |
| SIGNATURE | LÖFSTRAND C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1787-106X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Private surveillance in public spaces: A new mode of policing and surveillance in Sweden
This article examines how the deployment of private security officers to patrol public spaces, and their use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), has become possible in Sweden where public video surveillance was long considered unthinkable and where the protection of privacy remains strong. We ask how the expansion of private security officers into public spaces can be understood, and how the use of BWCs by these officers has affected the nature and scop…
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets: A six-nation comparison of its recognition in international policy discourses and criminal justice systems
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Transforming Subjectivities: Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times
Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry
Purpose The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with key personnel involved in the implementation of BWCs. The authors' analysis focused on delineating…
Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body‐worn cameras
This review paper critically examines the work environment implications of the use of body‐worn camera (BWC) technology reported in research. We found that published peer‐review studies (90 articles) pay very little attention to the work environment of BWC users – police officers. Departing from the notion of the two faces of surveillance and of BWC technology as a surveillance tool with uncertain implications – control or protection of officers …
Transforming Worker–Client Identities: From Shelters to Housing First
The Housing First (HF) approach to counteracting homelessness, stemming from the USA, is advocated as a blueprint for homelessness policy change in Europe, including the Nordic countries. In contrast to traditional homelessness policies based on shelters as the first step towards ending homelessness, the HF policy discourse regards access to one’s own housing as a basic human right that should not be conditional upon good or acceptable behaviour.…
Home‐ and Community‐Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches
By the end of the 20th century, deinstitutionalisation had become a pervasive trend in the Western world. This thematic issue discusses how successful deinstitutionalisation has been in enabling dignified and safe living with necessary services in local communities. It contributes to an understanding of the history and phases of deinstitutionalisation and ‘home turn’ policies, and sheds light on the grassroots‐level of home‐ and community‐based w…
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: Negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance
The private security industry has come to play a major role in Sweden and has become subject to a wide range of regulations. While these regulations give a sense of the role played by private security on the ground, it is important to study how private security actors themselves negotiate their way through these regulations, producing a more complex social order than regulations suggest. To study such everyday negotiations, this article draws on …
Devoted work without limits? Activities and premises of home visit work at the margins of community care
Community care provided through home visits is an increasingly common way to respond to adult citizens’ complex needs due to, for example, mental health and substance abuse problems. This study explores the activities and core premises that this work entails. The data contain six focus group interviews with practitioners in five service settings in Finland and Sweden at the margins of community care. Through a two-stage coding process, 11 activit…
Doing good: Autonomy in the Margins of Welfare
The welfare systems in the global North has seen changes in professional care delivery systems in the margins of welfare, from care in large treatment institutions, to community care and, more recently, to care taking place in home spaces. Care and support are increasingly provided in the home of the service user through floating support and home visits. Drawing on empirical ethics, we aim to inquire into modes of doing good care during professio…
Blurred boundaries and legal uncertainty in police–volunteer partnerships
Citizen involvement in policing is a means to enhance public confidence in the police and their legitimacy, and to increase their effectiveness. However, governmental control over voluntary policing is fraught with difficulty. We study the relationship between police and citizen volunteers in partnerships, looking specifically at roles and responsibilities in policing and the parties’ reflections upon regulation and autonomy in relation to accoun…
Private security as moral drama: A tale of two scandals
This article explores the phenomenon of scandals as they unfold in the private security industry. We begin by outlining our theoretical understanding of scandals, before tracking the key phases of two recent events – one in Sweden, the other in Britain. Scandals, we suggest, are best viewed as moral tales which dramatize a host of societal norms and values about private security and criminal justice, prompting a great deal of normative conflict. …
Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden
This article draws upon two separate studies on policing in Sweden, both investigating “ethnic diversity” as a discourse and a practice in the performance of policing functions: one interview study with minority police officers from a county police authority and one ethnographic study of private security officers. To examine how “diversity policing” and the “policing of diversity” are performed by policing actors, their strategic reliance on an e…
Private security policing by ‘ethnic matching’ in Swedish suburbs: Avoiding and managing accusations of ethnic discrimination
Recent research has stressed the dependency of the private security industry on public recognition and legitimacy. This article discusses how one Swedish security company, through the work of its individual security officers ‘on the ground’, carries out legitimation work in relation to the public. The empirical focus in this examination is on the company's work vis-à-vis youths from ‘foreign’ backgrounds in the ethnically and socioeconomically se…
Reforming the Work to Combat Long-Term Homelessness in Sweden
Examining recent strategies to combat long-term homelessness, the article looks at two social policy reforms implemented in a Swedish municipality. The first of these involved dismantling of the existing hostel system and its replacement with the 'housing staircase' model. The second meant the end of the housing staircase model and the engagement of private for-profit companies in the municipal special-housing service provision. By incorporating …
Supporting young crime victims: Discursive environments and formula narratives
Within the crime victim movement and discourse on victimization, a novel victim category has been introduced: the young crime victim. This article analyses the professional discourse formed around the new notion, focusing on the needs of the young crime victim along with the practices, tools, and techniques used to deal with resistance at a support centre for young crime victims in Sweden. The institutional or professional discourse, which functi…
Doing good: Autonomy in the Margins of Welfare
The welfare systems in the global North has seen changes in professional care delivery systems in the margins of welfare, from care in large treatment institutions, to community care and, more recently, to care taking place in home spaces. Care and support are increasingly provided in the home of the service user through floating support and home visits. Drawing on empirical ethics, we aim to inquire into modes of doing good care during professio…
Blurred boundaries and legal uncertainty in police–volunteer partnerships
Citizen involvement in policing is a means to enhance public confidence in the police and their legitimacy, and to increase their effectiveness. However, governmental control over voluntary policing is fraught with difficulty. We study the relationship between police and citizen volunteers in partnerships, looking specifically at roles and responsibilities in policing and the parties’ reflections upon regulation and autonomy in relation to accoun…
Private security policing by ‘ethnic matching’ in Swedish suburbs: Avoiding and managing accusations of ethnic discrimination
Recent research has stressed the dependency of the private security industry on public recognition and legitimacy. This article discusses how one Swedish security company, through the work of its individual security officers ‘on the ground’, carries out legitimation work in relation to the public. The empirical focus in this examination is on the company's work vis-à-vis youths from ‘foreign’ backgrounds in the ethnically and socioeconomically se…
Reforming the Work to Combat Long-Term Homelessness in Sweden
Examining recent strategies to combat long-term homelessness, the article looks at two social policy reforms implemented in a Swedish municipality. The first of these involved dismantling of the existing hostel system and its replacement with the 'housing staircase' model. The second meant the end of the housing staircase model and the engagement of private for-profit companies in the municipal special-housing service provision. By incorporating …
Supporting young crime victims: Discursive environments and formula narratives
Within the crime victim movement and discourse on victimization, a novel victim category has been introduced: the young crime victim. This article analyses the professional discourse formed around the new notion, focusing on the needs of the young crime victim along with the practices, tools, and techniques used to deal with resistance at a support centre for young crime victims in Sweden. The institutional or professional discourse, which functi…
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: Negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance
The private security industry has come to play a major role in Sweden and has become subject to a wide range of regulations. While these regulations give a sense of the role played by private security on the ground, it is important to study how private security actors themselves negotiate their way through these regulations, producing a more complex social order than regulations suggest. To study such everyday negotiations, this article draws on …
Private security as moral drama: A tale of two scandals
This article explores the phenomenon of scandals as they unfold in the private security industry. We begin by outlining our theoretical understanding of scandals, before tracking the key phases of two recent events – one in Sweden, the other in Britain. Scandals, we suggest, are best viewed as moral tales which dramatize a host of societal norms and values about private security and criminal justice, prompting a great deal of normative conflict. …
Supporting young crime victims: Discursive environments and formula narratives
Within the crime victim movement and discourse on victimization, a novel victim category has been introduced: the young crime victim. This article analyses the professional discourse formed around the new notion, focusing on the needs of the young crime victim along with the practices, tools, and techniques used to deal with resistance at a support centre for young crime victims in Sweden. The institutional or professional discourse, which functi…
Reforming the Work to Combat Long-Term Homelessness in Sweden
Examining recent strategies to combat long-term homelessness, the article looks at two social policy reforms implemented in a Swedish municipality. The first of these involved dismantling of the existing hostel system and its replacement with the 'housing staircase' model. The second meant the end of the housing staircase model and the engagement of private for-profit companies in the municipal special-housing service provision. By incorporating …
Private security policing by ‘ethnic matching’ in Swedish suburbs: Avoiding and managing accusations of ethnic discrimination
Recent research has stressed the dependency of the private security industry on public recognition and legitimacy. This article discusses how one Swedish security company, through the work of its individual security officers ‘on the ground’, carries out legitimation work in relation to the public. The empirical focus in this examination is on the company's work vis-à-vis youths from ‘foreign’ backgrounds in the ethnically and socioeconomically se…
Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden
This article draws upon two separate studies on policing in Sweden, both investigating “ethnic diversity” as a discourse and a practice in the performance of policing functions: one interview study with minority police officers from a county police authority and one ethnographic study of private security officers. To examine how “diversity policing” and the “policing of diversity” are performed by policing actors, their strategic reliance on an e…
Private security as moral drama: A tale of two scandals
This article explores the phenomenon of scandals as they unfold in the private security industry. We begin by outlining our theoretical understanding of scandals, before tracking the key phases of two recent events – one in Sweden, the other in Britain. Scandals, we suggest, are best viewed as moral tales which dramatize a host of societal norms and values about private security and criminal justice, prompting a great deal of normative conflict. …
Blurred boundaries and legal uncertainty in police–volunteer partnerships
Citizen involvement in policing is a means to enhance public confidence in the police and their legitimacy, and to increase their effectiveness. However, governmental control over voluntary policing is fraught with difficulty. We study the relationship between police and citizen volunteers in partnerships, looking specifically at roles and responsibilities in policing and the parties’ reflections upon regulation and autonomy in relation to accoun…
Devoted work without limits? Activities and premises of home visit work at the margins of community care
Community care provided through home visits is an increasingly common way to respond to adult citizens’ complex needs due to, for example, mental health and substance abuse problems. This study explores the activities and core premises that this work entails. The data contain six focus group interviews with practitioners in five service settings in Finland and Sweden at the margins of community care. Through a two-stage coding process, 11 activit…
Doing good: Autonomy in the Margins of Welfare
The welfare systems in the global North has seen changes in professional care delivery systems in the margins of welfare, from care in large treatment institutions, to community care and, more recently, to care taking place in home spaces. Care and support are increasingly provided in the home of the service user through floating support and home visits. Drawing on empirical ethics, we aim to inquire into modes of doing good care during professio…
Control or protection? Work environment implications of police body‐worn cameras
This review paper critically examines the work environment implications of the use of body‐worn camera (BWC) technology reported in research. We found that published peer‐review studies (90 articles) pay very little attention to the work environment of BWC users – police officers. Departing from the notion of the two faces of surveillance and of BWC technology as a surveillance tool with uncertain implications – control or protection of officers …
Transforming Worker–Client Identities: From Shelters to Housing First
The Housing First (HF) approach to counteracting homelessness, stemming from the USA, is advocated as a blueprint for homelessness policy change in Europe, including the Nordic countries. In contrast to traditional homelessness policies based on shelters as the first step towards ending homelessness, the HF policy discourse regards access to one’s own housing as a basic human right that should not be conditional upon good or acceptable behaviour.…
Home‐ and Community‐Based Work at the Margins of Welfare: Balancing between Disciplinary, Participatory and Caring Approaches
By the end of the 20th century, deinstitutionalisation had become a pervasive trend in the Western world. This thematic issue discusses how successful deinstitutionalisation has been in enabling dignified and safe living with necessary services in local communities. It contributes to an understanding of the history and phases of deinstitutionalisation and ‘home turn’ policies, and sheds light on the grassroots‐level of home‐ and community‐based w…
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: Negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance
The private security industry has come to play a major role in Sweden and has become subject to a wide range of regulations. While these regulations give a sense of the role played by private security on the ground, it is important to study how private security actors themselves negotiate their way through these regulations, producing a more complex social order than regulations suggest. To study such everyday negotiations, this article draws on …
Transforming Subjectivities: Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times
Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry
Purpose The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with key personnel involved in the implementation of BWCs. The authors' analysis focused on delineating…
Private surveillance in public spaces: A new mode of policing and surveillance in Sweden
This article examines how the deployment of private security officers to patrol public spaces, and their use of body-worn cameras (BWCs), has become possible in Sweden where public video surveillance was long considered unthinkable and where the protection of privacy remains strong. We ask how the expansion of private security officers into public spaces can be understood, and how the use of BWCs by these officers has affected the nature and scop…
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets: A six-nation comparison of its recognition in international policy discourses and criminal justice systems
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)