”Jag är inte kriminell, varför är jag på en anstalt?”: En rättssociologisk studie av den kriminaliserande effekten samt rättssäkerheten för förvarstagna individer vilka kriminalvårdsplaceras utan att vara misstänkta eller dömda för brott.
(2016) RÄSK02 20161Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- Foreign nationals may, according to Swedish law, be placed in detention centers. That means that they are deprived of their liberty for the purpose of being accessible for the migration authorities. The person will thereby be placed in a designated premises provided by the Swedish Migration Agency, although an incapacitation in police custody or correctional facilities can also become a reality. This means that people who are neither suspected nor convicted of crimes get an equivalent treatment as inmates. Interviews with six persons, who possess knowledge in the subject, have been conducted to analyze whether this kind of placement has a criminalizing effect. Both individuals working for the Swedish Migration Agency and people employed at... (More)
- Foreign nationals may, according to Swedish law, be placed in detention centers. That means that they are deprived of their liberty for the purpose of being accessible for the migration authorities. The person will thereby be placed in a designated premises provided by the Swedish Migration Agency, although an incapacitation in police custody or correctional facilities can also become a reality. This means that people who are neither suspected nor convicted of crimes get an equivalent treatment as inmates. Interviews with six persons, who possess knowledge in the subject, have been conducted to analyze whether this kind of placement has a criminalizing effect. Both individuals working for the Swedish Migration Agency and people employed at correctional facilities have been interviewed to get a broad and deep understanding of the practical implementation of the law. According to previous research addressed in the thesis placing a detainee in correctional facilities is more severe than a placement at the detention center, meaning such incapacitation may cause a more criminalizing effect.
Furthermore the purpose of this thesis was to examine the decisions and placements in correctional facilities with Aleksander Peczenik’s explanation of material and formal legal security. The formal legal security is found to be relatively strong since the employees act in line with the Swedish law. Thereby according to the interviews the belief in the placements legality is legitimate, which is consistent with Max Weber’s view of a modern society. Yet it fails to be completely legally secure since it is difficult to predict the length of the placements. The level of material legal security is hard to define since the detention centers may predicate their decisions differently, thus it is a matter of subjectivity. (Less)
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- author
- Strand, Clara LU and Bäckander, Maja LU
- supervisor
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- Reza Banakar LU
- organization
- course
- RÄSK02 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Sociology of law, Detention, Correctional facilities, Foreign nationals, Rule of law, Detainees, Criminalization, Legitimacy, Legality, Material and Formal Legal Security
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8876182
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-17 10:53:30
- date last changed
- 2016-06-17 10:53:30
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abstract = {{Foreign nationals may, according to Swedish law, be placed in detention centers. That means that they are deprived of their liberty for the purpose of being accessible for the migration authorities. The person will thereby be placed in a designated premises provided by the Swedish Migration Agency, although an incapacitation in police custody or correctional facilities can also become a reality. This means that people who are neither suspected nor convicted of crimes get an equivalent treatment as inmates. Interviews with six persons, who possess knowledge in the subject, have been conducted to analyze whether this kind of placement has a criminalizing effect. Both individuals working for the Swedish Migration Agency and people employed at correctional facilities have been interviewed to get a broad and deep understanding of the practical implementation of the law. According to previous research addressed in the thesis placing a detainee in correctional facilities is more severe than a placement at the detention center, meaning such incapacitation may cause a more criminalizing effect.
Furthermore the purpose of this thesis was to examine the decisions and placements in correctional facilities with Aleksander Peczenik’s explanation of material and formal legal security. The formal legal security is found to be relatively strong since the employees act in line with the Swedish law. Thereby according to the interviews the belief in the placements legality is legitimate, which is consistent with Max Weber’s view of a modern society. Yet it fails to be completely legally secure since it is difficult to predict the length of the placements. The level of material legal security is hard to define since the detention centers may predicate their decisions differently, thus it is a matter of subjectivity.}},
author = {{Strand, Clara and Bäckander, Maja}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Jag är inte kriminell, varför är jag på en anstalt?”: En rättssociologisk studie av den kriminaliserande effekten samt rättssäkerheten för förvarstagna individer vilka kriminalvårdsplaceras utan att vara misstänkta eller dömda för brott.}},
year = {{2016}},
}