Jerzy Sarnecki

Jerzy Sarnecki (; born 7 July 1947) is a Swedish and Polish professor in criminology at Stockholm University in Sweden.

Early life and family Sarnecki was born in 1947 in Warsaw, Poland. His family is Jewish. During the 1968 Polish political crisis, his father was fired, allegedly because he was Jewish.

Academic career He studied geodesy in Poland

Public profile Sarnecki is frequently invited to comment on current affairs by public service broadcaster Swedish Radio and has participated in the programs Radio P4, Godmorgon, världen!, Dagens Eko, and Tankesmedjan.

In February 2018, he stated in an interview with magazine Forskning & Framsteg that the increasing levels of gun crime in Sweden had taken him, Swedish criminologists in general and police in Sweden "by surprise".

In August 2018, in an interview with public broadcaster SVT, Sarnecki said that the Uppdrag granskning (an investigative journalism TV show) episode where reporters analysed the nationality of convicted rapists should never have been broadcast and criticized the reporters for making a connection between rape crime and ethnicity. He further argued that it is impossible to explain rape with cultural factors.

In a 2018 interview, Sarnecki stated that both he and his fellow researchers in Sweden held some responsibility for the lack of research into immigrant overrepresentation as convicted rapists in Sweden, saying that they ought to have researched it more. He stated that he was planning research to investigate the reasons why immigrants are overrepresented in crime, with a focus on sexual and violent crime. He also stated, in view of earlier research, that he thought that the major reason would be socioeconomic factors.

Personal life Sarnecki lives in Lidingö in Stockholm.