Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki is a Polish born Swedish professor of criminology at Stockholm University, born on 7 July 1947 in Warsaw to a Jewish family. He earned a doctorate in sociology from Stockholm University in 1978 and worked as a researcher at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention from 1977 to 1986 before moving into academia, later heading Stockholm University's Department of Criminology. His research concentrates on juvenile delinquency and crime, and he has served as president of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology since 2004 and as co-chairman of the jury for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.