Kıvanç Atak presents on policing in 1970s Turkey

Dr. Atak highlighted how the political polarisation of Turkey impacted policing, focusing on the working conditions of the police force as expressed in police association publications.

Kıvanç Atak is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Social Work, Criminology and Public Health at the University of Gävle. He is interested in questions related to state, security and social order with a particular focus on policing. His studies examined policing in the context of social movements and political demonstrations, state repression, racism and hate crime, and urban marginalization. Both contemporary and historical perspectives inform his research on Turkey and Sweden.

Before joining to the University of Gävle in 2022, Atak held research and teaching positions at Stockholm University. He obtained his PhD degree in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. His publications appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Policing and Society, Social and Legal Studies, and European Journal of Criminology.