RT Article
T1 ‘When it rains, it pours’: Housing evictions and criminal convictions in Sweden
JF European journal of criminology
VO 19
IS 4
SP 612
OP 631
A1 Alm, Susanne
A2 Bäckman, Olof
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839927445
AB Precarious housing and criminal behaviour are both important elements in processes of marginalization and cumulative disadvantage. It is well known that housing eviction primarily affects the weakest groups in society. In this article we ask if housing eviction has an independent effect on subsequent criminality and if the effect varies across different types of crime (utilitarian, violent and drug crime). Using propensity score matching on administrative register data covering all housing evictions in Sweden 2009, linked with crime registers and registers containing other relevant background information, we find that eviction increases the conviction rates for all analysed crime types, utilitarian crime in particular.
K1 Housing evictions
K1 Administrative data
K1 criminal convictions
K1 Propensity score matching
DO 10.1177/1477370820905107