Vad har hänt sedan sexköpslagen trädde i kraft? - En kvalitativ undersökning om attityder till prostitution och samhällets insatser för kvinnor som vill lämna prostitutionen
(2006)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Since 1999 Sweden have a law that criminalises the person who buys sexual services instead of criminalising the one who is selling, which in most cases is a woman. Seven years has passed since this law took place and in this study we aim to investigate what kind of help the society offer women in Malmö, Sweden, who wishes to step out of prostitution. Our aim with this study is also to look at the attitudes among citizens towards the new law and prostitution. The research is qualitative and all the six persons we interviewed has knowledge about the problems the women are facing when they want to step out of prostitution. To explane and analyse the answers we are using the theory of empowerment, labelling theory, the theory of gender... (More)
- Since 1999 Sweden have a law that criminalises the person who buys sexual services instead of criminalising the one who is selling, which in most cases is a woman. Seven years has passed since this law took place and in this study we aim to investigate what kind of help the society offer women in Malmö, Sweden, who wishes to step out of prostitution. Our aim with this study is also to look at the attitudes among citizens towards the new law and prostitution. The research is qualitative and all the six persons we interviewed has knowledge about the problems the women are facing when they want to step out of prostitution. To explane and analyse the answers we are using the theory of empowerment, labelling theory, the theory of gender socialisation and Jürgen Habermas theory of the lifeworld.
The most significant outcome of this study shows a positive result in regard of the laws effectiveness in diminishing street-prostitution to half of what i t was before the law was put into practice. Another outcome according to our respondents is that the public´s attitudes show both a conservative or liberal direction towards the new law and prostitution. (Less)
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- author
- Lindström, Emma and Liljeberg, Silvia
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- prostitution, sexköpslagen, insatser för prostituerade, attityder till prostitution, Social changes, theory of social work, Sociala förändringar, teorier om socialt arbete
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1326812
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-12 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-06-12 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Since 1999 Sweden have a law that criminalises the person who buys sexual services instead of criminalising the one who is selling, which in most cases is a woman. Seven years has passed since this law took place and in this study we aim to investigate what kind of help the society offer women in Malmö, Sweden, who wishes to step out of prostitution. Our aim with this study is also to look at the attitudes among citizens towards the new law and prostitution. The research is qualitative and all the six persons we interviewed has knowledge about the problems the women are facing when they want to step out of prostitution. To explane and analyse the answers we are using the theory of empowerment, labelling theory, the theory of gender socialisation and Jürgen Habermas theory of the lifeworld.
The most significant outcome of this study shows a positive result in regard of the laws effectiveness in diminishing street-prostitution to half of what i t was before the law was put into practice. Another outcome according to our respondents is that the public´s attitudes show both a conservative or liberal direction towards the new law and prostitution.}},
author = {{Lindström, Emma and Liljeberg, Silvia}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Vad har hänt sedan sexköpslagen trädde i kraft? - En kvalitativ undersökning om attityder till prostitution och samhällets insatser för kvinnor som vill lämna prostitutionen}},
year = {{2006}},
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