Ungdomar och brott : om gymnasieungdomars oro och utsatthet för brott i Lund
(2002)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Criminality is a constant current and distressing phenomenon of the society and we assume that crimes affect and awaken strong emotions, for instance fear and insecurity, in people. We chose to, with the help of quantitative method, investigate senior high school students' harassment of becoming victims of crime and the risk of being exposed to crime. Essential questions at issue run as follows: - How common is it that young people are being exposed to crime? - Does sex affect young people's worry? - How do young people, who are exposed to crime, react? - How many of the young people are worried of being exposed to crime and do they change their habits because of the worry? - Do circumstances, like being exposed to crime yourself or... (More)
- Criminality is a constant current and distressing phenomenon of the society and we assume that crimes affect and awaken strong emotions, for instance fear and insecurity, in people. We chose to, with the help of quantitative method, investigate senior high school students' harassment of becoming victims of crime and the risk of being exposed to crime. Essential questions at issue run as follows: - How common is it that young people are being exposed to crime? - Does sex affect young people's worry? - How do young people, who are exposed to crime, react? - How many of the young people are worried of being exposed to crime and do they change their habits because of the worry? - Do circumstances, like being exposed to crime yourself or witness a crime, change young people's worry? - Do young people consider crime as a problem of the society? The result of our investigation showed that 43.2 per cent of the senior high school students had been exposed to crime. Almost as many girls as boys had been exposed, but the boys had to a greater extent been exposed to heinous crimes. Neither girls nor boys were especially worried about of being exposed to crime, but our results showed that girls were more worried than boys. (Less)
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- author
- Fasth, Karolina and Hallqvist, Helen
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2002
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1358634
- date added to LUP
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Criminality is a constant current and distressing phenomenon of the society and we assume that crimes affect and awaken strong emotions, for instance fear and insecurity, in people. We chose to, with the help of quantitative method, investigate senior high school students' harassment of becoming victims of crime and the risk of being exposed to crime. Essential questions at issue run as follows: - How common is it that young people are being exposed to crime? - Does sex affect young people's worry? - How do young people, who are exposed to crime, react? - How many of the young people are worried of being exposed to crime and do they change their habits because of the worry? - Do circumstances, like being exposed to crime yourself or witness a crime, change young people's worry? - Do young people consider crime as a problem of the society? The result of our investigation showed that 43.2 per cent of the senior high school students had been exposed to crime. Almost as many girls as boys had been exposed, but the boys had to a greater extent been exposed to heinous crimes. Neither girls nor boys were especially worried about of being exposed to crime, but our results showed that girls were more worried than boys.}},
author = {{Fasth, Karolina and Hallqvist, Helen}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ungdomar och brott : om gymnasieungdomars oro och utsatthet för brott i Lund}},
year = {{2002}},
}