Centre for Police Research and Development
Centre for Police Research and Development (CPU) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Department of Criminology and Police Work based at Linnaeus University in Växjö.
The centre conducts independent research concerning police-related matters, with a special focus on the police’s intercommunion with the surrounding community, crime prevention, organisation and management, and police interrogation.
In a long-term perspective, the centre’s aim is to stimulate a multidisciplinary research environment to contribute to the development of knowledge within police research.
The overall objectives include the building of a venue for an exchange of knowledge between researchers, police and other people who are working within the judiciary, or with police-related matters.
Research projects
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Doctoral project: Negotiating Respectability My dissertation project explores how drag participants experience and do familyhood, gender, and aging.
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Doctoral project: The crime prevention collaboration of the Swedish parole agency The project aims to both map the extent of the probation service's crime prevention agency cooperation, and to…
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Doctoral project: The mechanisms of gang homicides Gun homicides and explosions related to organized crime have increased drastically over the past few years in Sweden. Therefore, the objective of…
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Project: Sibling violence from a professional perspective - managing and preventing an overlooked form of violence in close relationships In this project we study social workers' and family…
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Project: A valid police (education) Like many other countries that have already academised police education – not least other Nordic countries – Sweden had both the political will and far-reaching…
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Project: Honour problematics investigated by Swedish social services The purpose of the project is to enhance the understanding of how social services and family legal services investigate and…
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Project: Listen to us! An interview study with and about female guardians of network criminals The purpose of the project is to research the health of women who are parents or legal guardians of young…
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Project: Policing and crime prevention cooperation in border areas The starting point for this project is the stated goal that the Nordic region will be the world's most sustainable and integrated…
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Project: Policing democracy (Poldem) during political manifestations The purpose of the project is to develop theory-based understandings of how democratic values are learned in public institutions,…
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Project: The institution of concern – a compulsory encounter between police and social services in times of change The present project examines how the police assess and communicate concerns during…
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Project: The Police – a profession to care for The aim of this project is to investigate Swedish police officers and police students´ physical fitness and physical and mental health longitudinally and…
Current events
Figurant types in scenario-based exercises
Cecilia Jonsson's and Susanna Lif's article Figurant types in scenario-based exercises is now published in Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training.
Newsletter for the Nordic Police Research Network
Since autumn 2020, the CPU stands as editors and coordinate the mailing of newsletters. Since February 2021, the newsletter is written in English. As from autumn 2023, CPU is handing over the editorship to Södertörn University.