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Police presence and crime - Eurovision as a natural experiment
Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR). (Centrum för polisforskning och prevention)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2145-113X
Karlstad University, Sweden.
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Since Sweden won the Eurovision song contest 2023 the event was organized in Malmö, Sweden, in 2024. Due to the tense situation and terror threat, this led to a massive police presence in Malmö. Media have reported that this was associated with a substantially reduced crime level, but whether this holds up for academic scrutiny is unclear. Furthermore, one could expect some crime types to go up due to increased police presence, whereas other crime types should go down. Police initiated crimes such as traffic or drug crime could be expected to increase with more police. The massive influx of visitors to the city could be expected to drive up non police-initiated crime, whereas the police presence should reduce it. In the present study interrupted time series analysis is used to identify whether crime differed substantially during Eurovision, and how that varies by crime type.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention , 2025.
Keywords [en]
crime hot spots, unsafe places, police, community, data analysis
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Criminology
Research subject
Criminology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-80117OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-80117DiVA, id: diva2:2008318
Conference
Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2025 - Justice and rationality in correctional policies and practices, Stockholm, 9-11 June 2025
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Centrum för polisforskning och prevention
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Länsförsäkringar ABAvailable from: 2025-10-22 Created: 2025-10-22 Last updated: 2026-01-09Bibliographically approved

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