”Annars ska ni ha en bomb på socialkontoret” - En kvantitativ studie om hot och våld mot socialsekreterare inom ekonomiskt bistånd
(2020) SOPA63 20192School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Studies have shown that people working within social work are more exposed to threats and violence in the workplace than people with other occupations. The pur-pose of this study was to investigate the exposure to work-related threats and vio-lence among social workers and examine how situations involving work-related threats and violence are handled. More precisely, the study examines social workers in different municipalities in the south of Sweden who handle cases relating to in-come support. The study was conducted through a digital questionnaire that was e-mailed to 342 social workers in 12 municipalities in the south of Sweden. 137 social workers participated in answering the questionnaire. The results of the question¬naire were... (More)
- Studies have shown that people working within social work are more exposed to threats and violence in the workplace than people with other occupations. The pur-pose of this study was to investigate the exposure to work-related threats and vio-lence among social workers and examine how situations involving work-related threats and violence are handled. More precisely, the study examines social workers in different municipalities in the south of Sweden who handle cases relating to in-come support. The study was conducted through a digital questionnaire that was e-mailed to 342 social workers in 12 municipalities in the south of Sweden. 137 social workers participated in answering the questionnaire. The results of the question¬naire were analyzed through univariate and bivariate analysis. Furthermore, the re¬sults were also analyzed in relation to Michael Lipsky’s theory of street level bu¬reaucracy to emphasize the parameters under which some street level bureaucrats sometimes work and how those parameters can explain the exposure to threats and violence. The study found that work related threats are more frequent than violence in the workplace. The study also found that threats are more frequent in larger mu-nicipalities than in smaller ones. The study showed that how situations involving threats and violence in the workplace are handled is dependent on a variety of fac-tors. It showed that the majority of the social workers believe that that work-related threats should be reported to the police. However, the study also demonstrated that the propensity to report such incidents to the police is rather low among social workers. (Less)
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- author
- Hammar, Sarah LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- “If not, I’m going to bomb the office of Social Services” A quantitative study about work-related threats and violence among social workers within income support
- course
- SOPA63 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- social workers, work-related threats and violence, street level bureaucrats
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9002849
- date added to LUP
- 2020-01-29 11:02:25
- date last changed
- 2020-01-29 11:02:25
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abstract = {{Studies have shown that people working within social work are more exposed to threats and violence in the workplace than people with other occupations. The pur-pose of this study was to investigate the exposure to work-related threats and vio-lence among social workers and examine how situations involving work-related threats and violence are handled. More precisely, the study examines social workers in different municipalities in the south of Sweden who handle cases relating to in-come support. The study was conducted through a digital questionnaire that was e-mailed to 342 social workers in 12 municipalities in the south of Sweden. 137 social workers participated in answering the questionnaire. The results of the question¬naire were analyzed through univariate and bivariate analysis. Furthermore, the re¬sults were also analyzed in relation to Michael Lipsky’s theory of street level bu¬reaucracy to emphasize the parameters under which some street level bureaucrats sometimes work and how those parameters can explain the exposure to threats and violence. The study found that work related threats are more frequent than violence in the workplace. The study also found that threats are more frequent in larger mu-nicipalities than in smaller ones. The study showed that how situations involving threats and violence in the workplace are handled is dependent on a variety of fac-tors. It showed that the majority of the social workers believe that that work-related threats should be reported to the police. However, the study also demonstrated that the propensity to report such incidents to the police is rather low among social workers.}},
author = {{Hammar, Sarah}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Annars ska ni ha en bomb på socialkontoret” - En kvantitativ studie om hot och våld mot socialsekreterare inom ekonomiskt bistånd}},
year = {{2020}},
}