Sofia Wikman
Biographic Data
| ID | 82422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Wikman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wikman |
| SIGNATURE | WIKMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gävle |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8186-3662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime Rates in Swedish Municipalities
Global evidence indicates minimal connection between immigration and crime. Nordic research, however, has been generally carried out on individuals and shows that immigrants are over-represented in crime. This has led to claims that high crime rates are due to immigration. We directed our study towards these claims by analyzing immigrant population prevalence, defined as the percent of foreign-born individuals, and violent crime in Swedish munici…
Perceived Effectiveness, Restrictiveness, and Compliance with Containment Measures against the Covid-19 Pandemic
National governments took action to delay the transmission of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by implementing different containment measures. We developed an online survey that included 44 different containment measures. We aimed to assess how effective citizens perceive these measures, which measures are perceived as violation of citizens' personal freedoms, which opinions and demographic factors have an effect on compliance with the measures, and …
Hårdare tag i arbetslivet
Preventing violence at work: A study of descriptions of safety measures in Swedish trade union journals 1978–2004The purpose of this study is to examine if perceptions of interventions aimed at violence in the workplace have changed since the 1970s. In the beginning of the study period, structural factors are seen as the dominating explanation for workplace violence. The crime perspective rises in the 1990’s and methods of intervention becomes th…
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Violence at work as a social problem: a study of the media coverage on workplace violence in Swedish trade union journals 1978–2004The main purpose of this study was to find out the extent of the unions media coverage on workplace violence and the ways in which the topic was framed. The study shows that the reporting of violence in the workplace described in journals is on a stable level during the period 1978–98. However from the year 2000 and o…
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Våld på jobbet
Violence at work as a social problem: a study of the media coverage on workplace violence in Swedish trade union journals 1978–2004The main purpose of this study was to find out the extent of the unions media coverage on workplace violence and the ways in which the topic was framed. The study shows that the reporting of violence in the workplace described in journals is on a stable level during the period 1978–98. However from the year 2000 and o…
Hårdare tag i arbetslivet
Preventing violence at work: A study of descriptions of safety measures in Swedish trade union journals 1978–2004The purpose of this study is to examine if perceptions of interventions aimed at violence in the workplace have changed since the 1970s. In the beginning of the study period, structural factors are seen as the dominating explanation for workplace violence. The crime perspective rises in the 1990’s and methods of intervention becomes th…
Perceived Effectiveness, Restrictiveness, and Compliance with Containment Measures against the Covid-19 Pandemic
National governments took action to delay the transmission of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by implementing different containment measures. We developed an online survey that included 44 different containment measures. We aimed to assess how effective citizens perceive these measures, which measures are perceived as violation of citizens' personal freedoms, which opinions and demographic factors have an effect on compliance with the measures, and …
Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime Rates in Swedish Municipalities
Global evidence indicates minimal connection between immigration and crime. Nordic research, however, has been generally carried out on individuals and shows that immigrants are over-represented in crime. This has led to claims that high crime rates are due to immigration. We directed our study towards these claims by analyzing immigrant population prevalence, defined as the percent of foreign-born individuals, and violent crime in Swedish munici…
Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works)