En kvalitativ studie om personutredares återberättande gällande utredningsprocessen; Om makten i relationen, situationen och yrket
(2013) SOPA63 20131School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of the study wasto examine and analyze the interviewed pre-sentence investigator´s statements about the process of making a pre-sentence investigation report.The study is qualitative in the form of a vignette featured to the five interviewed pre-sentence investigators.Two of the pre-sentence investigators are working with young people and the remaining three investigatorsareworking withadults.Oneimportant conclusion drawnis that pre-sentence investigation reportsare not controlled by anyone other than the investigator andtheclient itself. The report gets sentto court who in turn make it public,available for everyone to read. Justthepre-sentence investigator and the client decides if this information could harm the client inhisor... (More)
- The aim of the study wasto examine and analyze the interviewed pre-sentence investigator´s statements about the process of making a pre-sentence investigation report.The study is qualitative in the form of a vignette featured to the five interviewed pre-sentence investigators.Two of the pre-sentence investigators are working with young people and the remaining three investigatorsareworking withadults.Oneimportant conclusion drawnis that pre-sentence investigation reportsare not controlled by anyone other than the investigator andtheclient itself. The report gets sentto court who in turn make it public,available for everyone to read. Justthepre-sentence investigator and the client decides if this information could harm the client inhisor herssocial life.Then who takes the blame?The court requested the investigation, but it is a pre-sentenceinvestigator who writes the report,then there isthe court again that discloses the report.The pre-sentence investigation reports do have great influence on the courts final decisionon penalty, therefore the importance of great and truthful information. Positive is that the pre-sentence investigators are aware of the power they possess doing this type of reports. (Less)
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- author
- Hedlund, Zara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Pre-sentence reports, Process, Power
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4017201
- date added to LUP
- 2013-09-06 11:39:31
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@misc{4017201,
abstract = {{The aim of the study wasto examine and analyze the interviewed pre-sentence investigator´s statements about the process of making a pre-sentence investigation report.The study is qualitative in the form of a vignette featured to the five interviewed pre-sentence investigators.Two of the pre-sentence investigators are working with young people and the remaining three investigatorsareworking withadults.Oneimportant conclusion drawnis that pre-sentence investigation reportsare not controlled by anyone other than the investigator andtheclient itself. The report gets sentto court who in turn make it public,available for everyone to read. Justthepre-sentence investigator and the client decides if this information could harm the client inhisor herssocial life.Then who takes the blame?The court requested the investigation, but it is a pre-sentenceinvestigator who writes the report,then there isthe court again that discloses the report.The pre-sentence investigation reports do have great influence on the courts final decisionon penalty, therefore the importance of great and truthful information. Positive is that the pre-sentence investigators are aware of the power they possess doing this type of reports.}},
author = {{Hedlund, Zara}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{En kvalitativ studie om personutredares återberättande gällande utredningsprocessen; Om makten i relationen, situationen och yrket}},
year = {{2013}},
}