

Associate professor | Senior lecturer
Associate Editor of Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
Research Areas
- Corporate crimes and the processes of denial
- Exploitation of migrant workers
- Access to justice and legal aid
Current Research
Exploitation of migrant workers
Isabel is managing the Labour Exploitation Research Network (LERN), focusing on policies against human trafficking, forced labour and exploitation of migrant workers in the Nordic region. The network is run in collaboration with Marlene Spanger (Aalborg University), Natalia Ollus (HEUNI) and Synnøve Jahnsen, (NORCE) and funded by Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) 2018-2020.
You also find information about the project on its page on the Sociology of Law's website.
Isabel also head of the research project Responses to Labour Exploitation in Sweden – Representations of Victims and Access to Justice, financed by the Swedish Crime Victim Authority (Brottsoffermyndigheten) 2021-2022.
Read more about Responses to Labour Exploitation in Sweden on the project page.
Corporate crimes and the processes of denial
Additionally, Isabel Schoultz is involved in the research project Business as usual: Corporate defence strategies against accusations of crime. The project’s objective is to study the strategies employed by mainly two businesses (Telia Sonera and Lundin Petroleum) when defending themselves against allegations of crime.
Is it possible to distinguish differences in the companies’ defence strategies across different periods, in different forums and relation to different target groups? How may institutional and social structures affect the types of defence mechanisms that are utilised and in what ways may these mechanisms influence the companies’ opportunities to engage in crime?
The research project runs together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Corporate strategies within a transnational regulatory field
Isabel Schoultz
(2023) Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law : An Homage to Reza Banakar , p.111-126
Book chapterPerforming unbelonging in court : Observations from a transnational corporate bribery trial—a dramaturgical approach
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2022) Crime, Law and Social Change, 77 p.321-340
Journal articleFrom “We Didn’t Do It” to “We’ve Learned Our Lesson” : Development of a Typology of Neutralizations of Corporate Crime
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2020) Critical Criminology, 28 p.739-757
Journal article“We Have Been Thrown Under the Bus”: : Corporate Versus Individual Defense Mechanisms Against Transnational Corporate Bribery Charges
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2020) Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 2 p.24-35
Journal articleDenials and Confessions : An Analysis of the Temporalization of Neutralizations of Corporate Crime
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2020) International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 62
Journal articleOm rättssociologisk tillämpning
(2020)
BookIntroduktion
Ida Nafstad, Isabel Schoultz
(2020) Om rättssociologisk tillämpning , p.15-26
Book chapterAccess to justice in Sweden
Heraclitos Muhire, Enrico Giansanti, Isabel Schoultz
(2020) Access to Justice : Global Access to Justice Project. , p.1-77
Book chapterThe “Discovery” of White‐Collar Crime: The Legacy of Edwin Sutherland
Aleksandra Jordanoska, Isabel Schoultz
(2019) The Handbook of White‐Collar Crime , p.3-15
Book chapterWhose Law? What Order? Struggles within Juridical Fields
Ida Nafstad, Isabel Schoultz
(2019) Explorations in Critical Criminology in Honor of William J. Chambliss , p.180-200
Book chapterAquí no ha pasado nada, sólo son negocios”: cómo las transnacionales suecas neutralizan las acusaciones de haber cometido delitos
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2019) La sociedad paralela y el pluralismo legal en un mundo globalizado : El "otro" como riesgo o hacia el entendimiento multicultural , p.95-121
Book chapterFöretags försvar vid anklagelser om brott – betydelsen av den nordiska kontexten
Janne Flyghed, Isabel Schoultz
(2019) Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab, 106 p.297-297
Journal articleLegal Aid in Sweden
Isabel Schoultz
(2018) Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States , p.43-76
Book chapterThe state’s mishandling of immigration to Sweden : how bodies controlling the state frame the problem
Isabel Schoultz
(2017) Crime, Law and Social Change, 68 p.29-46
Journal articleDoing business for a “higher loyalty”? : How Swedish transnational corporations neutralise allegations of crime
Isabel Schoultz, Janne Flyghed
(2016) Crime, Law and Social Change, 66 p.183-198
Journal articleMöjligheten att utkräva ansvar genom Europadomstolen
Isabel Schoultz
(2016) Festskrift till Karsten Åström , p.413-428
Book chapterControlling the Swedish state Studies on formal and informal bodies of control
Isabel Schoultz
(2015)
DissertationPolisanmälda hatbrott med antiromska motiv – en studie av polisens utredningsåtgärder
Isabel Schoultz
(2015)
ReportSeeking Asylum and Residence Permits in Sweden : Denial, Acknowledgement, and Bureaucratic Legitimacy
Isabel Schoultz
(2014) Critical Criminology, 22 p.219-235
Journal articleInternational criminal justice : Law, courts, and punishment as deterrent mechanisms?
Dawn L. Rothe, Isabel Schoultz
(2014) Criminal Justice in International Society , p.151-165
Book chapterEuropean Court of Human Rights – accountability to whom?
Isabel Schoultz
(2014) Towards a Victimology of State Crime , p.173-190
Book chapterState Crime in the Street-Level Bureaucracy : Towards an Understanding of Crimes of the Welfare State
Isabel Schoultz
(2012) International Criminal Justice Review, 22 p.258-275
Journal articleLa giustizia penale internazionale: un deterrente per i crimini di Stato?
Dawn L. Rothe, Isabel Schoultz
(2012) Studi sulla questione criminale, 7 p.43-58
Journal articleRecension – State Crime in the Global Age (2010) : Redaktörer: Chambliss WilliamJ., Michalowski Raymond & Kramer Ronald C. Willian Publishing
Isabel Schoultz
(2011) Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab, 98 p.102-106
ReviewStatsterrorismen som gick upp i rök
Isabel Schoultz
(2011) Kriminologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet , p.31-41
Report chapter
Background
Isabel Schoultz holds a PhD in Criminology from the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University. She is now an associate professor and employed as a senior lecturer at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University.
She is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime.
Since 2021, Isabel Schoultz is the Head of Department at the Sociology of Law Department.
Awards
Isabel´s article entitled State Crime in the Street-Level Bureaucracy: Towards an Understanding of Crimes of the Welfare State, published in the International Criminal Justice Review, was voted the winner of the 2012 Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award.