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Isabel Schoultz
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Isabel Schoultz

Head of department

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Isabel Schoultz
Contact details
  • Email: isabel [dot] schoultz [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 88 11
Organisation
  • Department of Sociology of Law
  • Service point: 31
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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.

Read about the LERN research project ‘Law in action’ – policy and legal responses to the exploitation of migrant workers in the Nordic countries at the NSfK website.

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

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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.
 

Isabel Schoultz in our news

Sociologists of law investigating migrant worker exploitation in the Nordics

Our researcher is following the trial against Telia

Why hate crimes with antiziganistic motives seldom are solved

27 Jun 2022