Elin Jönsson
About me
My research interests mainly revolve around powerful actors, such as nation-states and large corporations, and how their actions are defined and regulated in complex global spaces. I take an interest in social and environmental crimes and harms, including e.g., corruption, human rights violations and deforestation. In my PhD project, I focus in particular on the idea of - and regulation associated with - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), with a theoretical interest in the conflictual and contradictory dynamic of contemporary global capitalism.
Teaching
I teach topics such as 'crimes by the powerful', corporate crime, critical criminological theory, law and regulation, and green criminology on several undergraduate and graduate courses. I also supervise undergraduate theses.
Research
Jönsson, E. (2022). Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility. The British Journal of Criminology.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac082
Jönsson, E. (2022). The Idea of Crisis: Reflections from the 2022 NSfK Research Seminar. Blog post on the Nordic Criminology Blog.
Jönsson, E. (2022). Beyond Control? Studying attempts at taming harmful corporate conduct. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab. 109(1): 5-10.
Jönsson, E. (2019). Risky business: corporate risk regulation when managing allegations of crime. Crime, Law and Social Change. 71: 483-501.
Conference presentations
ESC Annual Conference (European Society of Criminology), Florence, Italy 2023. Justice From Below: Insights from a study of the National Contact Points.
EG Annual Conference (European Group for the study of deviance and social control), Turku, Finland 2023. Taming the Swedish corporation? A critical analysis of the hardened demands on corporate conduct.
DWCC/EUROC Seminar (ASC Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime/European Working Group on Organizational Crime), Online 2023. Regulating Corporate Harm – insights into the case of Sweden.
ACCESS Forum (Academic Collaboration Chile Sweden), Punta Arenas, Chile 2022. Towards recognition? Exploring stakeholders’ pursuits for corporate accountability.
NSfK Research Seminar (Nordic Research Council for Criminology), Hveragerði, Iceland 2022. Beyond control? Studying attempts at taming harmful corporate conduct.
