Sara Skott

Publications

Articles in journals
Articles, book reviews
Books
Chapters in books
Conference papers
Doctoral theses, monographs
Other
Reports

Articles in journals

Skott, S. , Skott Bengtson, K. & Fiddler, M. (2025). ‘Born of the Blood, Made Men by the Blood, Undone by the Blood’ : Bloodborne as a Critical Reflection of Ghosts of the Anthropocene. Games and Culture,    

Nyhlén, S. , Skott, S. & Giritli Nygren, K. (2024). Haunting the Margins : Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time. Critical Criminology, vol. 32: 2, pp. 479-496.    

Suonpää, K. , Kivivuori, J. , Aarten, P. , Ahven, A. , Granath, S. , Markwalder, N. , Skott, S. , Thomsen, A. H. & et al. (2024). Homicide drop in seven European countries : General or specific across countries and crime types?. European Journal of Criminology, vol. 21: 1, pp. 3-30.  

Caman, S. & Skott, S. (2024). Invisible Victims : Exploring Gendered Trends in Youth Intimate Partner Homicide. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research,    

Nyhlén, S. , Giritli Nygren, K. & Skott, S. (2024). The Spectropolitics of the Swedish People’s Home : Tracing the ‘no longer’ and the ‘not yet’ in the Swedish 2022 Election Campaign. Synthesis, : 16, pp. 29-47.  

Caman, S. & Skott, S. (2024). Youth Intimate Partner Femicide : Identification of Factors Specific to Femicide Against Adolescent and Young Adult Victims. Journal of family Violence,  

Skott, S. (2023). “It’s Kind of Our Everyday Life. It Sort of Becomes Natural” : Everyday Violence and Violent Practices Among Young People. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 38: 13-14, pp. 8422-8452.  

Skott, S. & Skott Bengtson, K. (2022). ‘You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?’ : A Hauntological Analysis of Carceral Violence in Majora’s Mask. Games and Culture, vol. 17: 4, pp. 593-613.    

Skott, S. (2021). Disaggregating Violence : Understanding the Decline. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 36: 15-16, pp. 7670-7694.  

Skott, S. , Nyhlén, S. & Giritli Nygren, K. (2021). In the Shadow of the Monster: Gothic Narratives of Violence Prevention. Critical Criminology, vol. 29: 2, pp. 385-400.    

Skott, S. , Beauregard, E. & Darjee, R. (2021). Sexual and Nonsexual Homicide in Scotland: Is There a Difference?. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 36: 7-8, pp. 3209-3230.  

Skott, S. , Beauregard, E. , Darjee, R. & Martineau, M. (2021). The consistency of sexual homicide characteristics and typologies across countries : a comparison of Canadian and Scottish sexual homicides. Journal of Sexual Aggression, vol. 27: 1, pp. 18-34.    

Skott, S. (2019). Disaggregating Homicide : Changing trends in subtypes over time. Criminal justice and behavior, vol. 46: 11, pp. 1650-1668.  

Skott, S. , Beauregard, E. & Darjee, R. (2019). Female Sexual Homicide Offenders: A Descriptive and Comparative Study. Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 64: 1, pp. 154-162.    

Skott, S. (2019). Sexual Homicide Targeting Children : Exploring Offender, Victim, and Modus Operandi Factors. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, vol. 63: 9, pp. 1663-1680.  

Skott, S. (2015). Homicide in Scotland : The need for a deeper understanding. Scottish Justice Matters, vol. 3: 3, pp. 36-37.  

Articles, book reviews

Skott, S. (2024). Tea Fredriksson (2023) Haunting Prison : Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy,    

Books

Skott, S. (2022). Homicide : Towards a deeper understanding. Taylor & Francis  

Chapters in books

Skott, S. & Skott Bengtson, K. (2024). “Are You Sure the Only You is You?” : Domestic Violence and Critiquing the Other in the Spectral Remains of P.T.. In Video Games, Crime, and Control : Getting Played. London : Routledge. pp. 51-69.  

Giritli Nygren, K. , Nyhlén, S. & Skott, S. (2024). Hjältar och kris – eller krisande hjältefigurationer?. In Naturkraft : Festskrift till Erna Danielsson. Mittuniversitetet.

Giritli Nygren, K. , Larsson, E. , Nyhlén, S. , Lööv, A. O. , Olofsson, A. , Sjöberg, I. , Sjöstedt, A. , Skott, S. & et al. (2022). Föreställda gemenskaper kan bli verkliga. In FGV-en jubilar i vardande : Tillsammans och på eget håll. Sundsvall : Mittuniversitetet (Genusstudier vid Mittuniversitetet). pp. 33-38.

Conference papers

Skott, S. (2019). Homicide and Violence in Scotland : Changing Subtypes over Time. Paper presented at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2019, STOCKHOLM JUNE 10-12, 2019

Skott, S. (2019). Maskulinitet och våld i förändring : Vertigo of Masculinity. Paper presented at the Genusmarathon 2019, Östersund, 21 mars, 2019

Skott, S. (2018). A Typology of Homicide in the Context of the Crime Drop. Paper presented at the European Society of Criminology Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2018

Skott, S. (2016). Homicide in Scotland – the need for a deeper understanding. Paper presented at the The 72nd Annual American Society of Criminology Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 16-19, 2016

Skott, S. (2016). Homicide in Scotland: The need for a deeper understanding. Paper presented at the The 16th Annual European Society of Criminology Conference in Muenster, Germany, September 21-24, 2016

Skott, S. (2016). Homicide in Scotland: Changing subtypes over time. Paper presented at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2016, June 10-12, 2016

Skott, S. (2016). The Relationship between Homicide and Serious Violence: The need for further examination. Paper presented at the International Homicide: The EHM and methodological challenges - An international homicide symposium in Edinburgh 2016

Skott, S. (2015). The Relationship between Homicide and Serious Violence: The Need for Further Examination. Paper presented at the The 15th Annual European Society of Criminology Conference in Porto, Portugal, September 2-5, 2015

Doctoral theses

Skott, S. (2018). Changing Types of Homicide in Scotland and their Relationship to Changing Types of Wider Violence. Dis. Edinburgh : The University of Edinburgh, 2018  

Other

Skott, S. & McVie, S. (2019). Reduction in homicide and violence in Scotland is largely explained by fewer gangs and less knife crime (AQMeN Research Briefing).

Skott, S. , Beauregard, E. & Darjee, R. (2017). Sexual Homicide in Scotland (AQMeN Research Briefing).

Reports

Skott, S. (2024). Våld i Vardagen - kortrapport.

Caman, S. & Skott, S. (2023). Dödligt partnervåld mot unga. Jämställdhetsmyndigheten  

Olofsdotter, G. , Bolin, M. , Giritli Nygren, K. , Haj Brade, L. , Nyhlén, S. & Skott, S. (2020). "Att planera ett träd och låta det växa" - om arbete med jämställdhet och mångfald i SCA Skog AB. Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University