Häktning som tvångsmedel: en kvalitativ intervjustudie om häktningslagstfitningens syfte och effekter
(2020) RÄSK02 20201Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- When a person is suspected of a crime, the prosecutor can demand that the court detains the suspect during the preliminary investigation. It is not uncommon that restrictions are applied when being put in remand during an ongoing investigation. This is one of the reasons prosecutors demand a suspect be kept in custody in order to secure the criminal investigation. There has been criticism directed towards Sweden by The European Committee For The Prevention of Torture as well as The Committee Against Torture regarding the country’s way of treating its’ detainees. The criticism is mainly about how the isolation that the remand entails creates mental illness amongst the detainees. Based on this information, the aim of this study has been to... (More)
- When a person is suspected of a crime, the prosecutor can demand that the court detains the suspect during the preliminary investigation. It is not uncommon that restrictions are applied when being put in remand during an ongoing investigation. This is one of the reasons prosecutors demand a suspect be kept in custody in order to secure the criminal investigation. There has been criticism directed towards Sweden by The European Committee For The Prevention of Torture as well as The Committee Against Torture regarding the country’s way of treating its’ detainees. The criticism is mainly about how the isolation that the remand entails creates mental illness amongst the detainees. Based on this information, the aim of this study has been to investigate how the remand legislations’ purpose looks compared to its’ actual effects. This study is built upon six qualitative telephone interviews with people who that have been detained earlier in life. Erving Goffman's theory regarding total institution has been used in order to analyze the findings. The results show that the former detainees describe their time in custody in different ways, however, there were similarities when discussing the negative impressions received whilst being detained. Most of the former detainees felt that the remand affected them mentally, however, it also gave them time to reconsider the criminal lifestyle. The main conclusion was that the purpose of the remand is not always directly unified with its’ actual effects. (Less)
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- author
- Marbe, Frida LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- RÄSK02 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- custody, detention, isolation, crime suspect, restrictions
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9019254
- date added to LUP
- 2020-06-25 08:43:41
- date last changed
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abstract = {{When a person is suspected of a crime, the prosecutor can demand that the court detains the suspect during the preliminary investigation. It is not uncommon that restrictions are applied when being put in remand during an ongoing investigation. This is one of the reasons prosecutors demand a suspect be kept in custody in order to secure the criminal investigation. There has been criticism directed towards Sweden by The European Committee For The Prevention of Torture as well as The Committee Against Torture regarding the country’s way of treating its’ detainees. The criticism is mainly about how the isolation that the remand entails creates mental illness amongst the detainees. Based on this information, the aim of this study has been to investigate how the remand legislations’ purpose looks compared to its’ actual effects. This study is built upon six qualitative telephone interviews with people who that have been detained earlier in life. Erving Goffman's theory regarding total institution has been used in order to analyze the findings. The results show that the former detainees describe their time in custody in different ways, however, there were similarities when discussing the negative impressions received whilst being detained. Most of the former detainees felt that the remand affected them mentally, however, it also gave them time to reconsider the criminal lifestyle. The main conclusion was that the purpose of the remand is not always directly unified with its’ actual effects.}},
author = {{Marbe, Frida}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Häktning som tvångsmedel: en kvalitativ intervjustudie om häktningslagstfitningens syfte och effekter}},
year = {{2020}},
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