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Sofia Jonsson

Postdoctoral Fellow
  • E-mailSofia.Jonsson@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 33 06
  • Visitor Address
    Christies gate 19
    Room 
    208
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen where I am researching sexual corruption, sex-buying behavior, and international police collaboration. In my research I use a variety of advanced methods, with a focus on experimental and survey research.

My research interest is focused on gender and politics, gender and corruption as well as gendered types of public policy.

In my dissertation, "Sex, crime and politics. How organized crime influences and adapts to political institutions, with a particular focus on sex trafficking" (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg) I examine the interlinked relationship between prostitution policy, human trafficking and democratic development.

In collaboration with colleagues at the department I am developing the new course GOV217 Gender and Power in Contemporary Politics. I am the course convenor and I also teach at this course.

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2024). Sex instead of money: Conceptualizing sexual corruption. Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? Evidence from a European survey on prostitution. European Journal of Law and Economics. 91-115.
  • Show author(s) (2018). The Complex Relationship between Police Corruption and Sex Trafficking in Origin Countries. Journal of Human Trafficking.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Is buying sex morally wrong? Comparing attitudes toward prostitution using individual-level data across eight Western European countries. Women's Studies: International Forum.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2019). Sex, crime and politics. How organized crime influences and adapts to political institutions, with a particular focus on sex trafficking.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)