Polisiära maktbefogenheter genom en governmentality-lins - En teoriorienterad studie av polisiära maktbefogenheter i en svensk kontext
(2020) JURM02 20202Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Den svenska polisen har befogenhet och skyldighet att upprätthålla allmän ordning och säkerhet i Sverige. För att uppnå detta mål har polisen blivit tilldelad olika maktbefogenheter. Det faktum att en myndighet får i uppgift att upprätthålla allmän ordning är dock förknippat med ett antal risker. Befogenheter kan misstolkas och fördomar kan påverka den enskilde polisens handlande.
I den här teoriorienterade studien närmar jag mig de polisiära maktbefogenheterna ur ett governmentality-perspektiv. Grundläggande för perspektivet är att det tillåter forskaren att betrakta styrning som en ’aktivitet’ och inte en fråga om ’vem’ som styr. Genom att använda mig av governmentality och specifikt hur vissa disposítifs används för att styra... (More) - Den svenska polisen har befogenhet och skyldighet att upprätthålla allmän ordning och säkerhet i Sverige. För att uppnå detta mål har polisen blivit tilldelad olika maktbefogenheter. Det faktum att en myndighet får i uppgift att upprätthålla allmän ordning är dock förknippat med ett antal risker. Befogenheter kan misstolkas och fördomar kan påverka den enskilde polisens handlande.
I den här teoriorienterade studien närmar jag mig de polisiära maktbefogenheterna ur ett governmentality-perspektiv. Grundläggande för perspektivet är att det tillåter forskaren att betrakta styrning som en ’aktivitet’ och inte en fråga om ’vem’ som styr. Genom att använda mig av governmentality och specifikt hur vissa disposítifs används för att styra befolkningen försöker jag visa hur maktbefogenheterna i sig kan påverka en population utan att någon ens har använt dem.
Genom en rekonstruktion av två maktbefogenheter nämligen laga befogenhet i 10 § Polislagen och det lågintensiva våld som polisen kan utöva samt visitation i 19 § Polislagen. För att få en helhetsbild av maktbefogenheterna redogörs även för kopplingen till grundläggande rättigheter samt definitioner av rättsbegrepp som ingripande och tvång. Jag använder sedan rekonstruktionen för att analysera lagen ur ett governmentalityperspektiv.
Resultatet visar att de polisiära maktbefogenheterna utmärks av de inte tillämpas för brottsutredning, det polisiära skönet och själva ingripandet. Governmentality-perspektivet visar är att regleringen är produktiv då den bidrar till sortering av subjektiviteter. Disposítifet bygger på de diskursiva kopplingar mellan polisens breda handlingsutrymme, de reglerande principerna, samt den rättighetsdiskurs som genomsyrar den gällande rätten kring tvångsmedel och våld och var strukturerat i syfte att kontrollera och ordna befolkningen. De rättsliga diskurserna som maktbefogenheterna bygger på skapar subjektiviteter men legitimerar också exklusion av dessa subjektiviteter. (Less) - Abstract
- The Swedish police have the authority and the obligation to maintain public order in the Swedish state. To fulfill this objective the Swedish police have been granted different powers and coercive techniques. The fact that a public authority is given this task is however associated with a number of risks. The law can be misinterpreted, and bias can influence the actions of the individual police officer.
In this theory-oriented study, I approach police-powers from a governmentality-perspective. Fundamental to the perspective is that it allows the researcher to consider governance as an ‘activity’ and not a question about ‘who’ governs. By using governmentality, specifically how certain disposítifs are used to control the population, I... (More) - The Swedish police have the authority and the obligation to maintain public order in the Swedish state. To fulfill this objective the Swedish police have been granted different powers and coercive techniques. The fact that a public authority is given this task is however associated with a number of risks. The law can be misinterpreted, and bias can influence the actions of the individual police officer.
In this theory-oriented study, I approach police-powers from a governmentality-perspective. Fundamental to the perspective is that it allows the researcher to consider governance as an ‘activity’ and not a question about ‘who’ governs. By using governmentality, specifically how certain disposítifs are used to control the population, I try to show how the police-powers themselves can affect a population without anyone even using them.
Through a reconstruction of two police powers, namely the use-of-force in 10 § Polislagen (Police Act), especially low intensive use of force, and visitation 19 § Polislagen (Police Act). In order to get an overall picture of the powers, the connection to fundamental rights and definitions of legal concepts such as police intervention and coercion are also described. I then use the reconstruction to analyze the law from a governmentality perspective.
The results show that the police powers are defined by the fact that they cannot be applied in a preliminary investigation setting, that they are discretionary, and that they have a special connection to police intervention. Use of force is legitimate as long as several principles are abided by and that low intensive force will usually be proportional. What the governmentality-perspective shows are that the regulation is productive as it contributes to the creation and arranging of subjectivities. The disposítif is based on the discursive connections between the police discretionary abilities, legal principles, and the discourse on rights that permeates the regulation. This structure of the dispositíf allows for the police to control and organize the population. The legal discourse about police powers creates subjectivities and in the same moment also legitimizes interference and exclusion of these subjectivities. (Less)
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- author
- Lönn, Maximilian LU
- supervisor
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- Tova Bennet LU
- organization
- course
- JURM02 20202
- year
- 2020
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- straffrätt, rättsfilosofi, polisiära maktbefogenheter
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9034398
- date added to LUP
- 2021-01-25 11:10:43
- date last changed
- 2021-01-25 11:10:43
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abstract = {{The Swedish police have the authority and the obligation to maintain public order in the Swedish state. To fulfill this objective the Swedish police have been granted different powers and coercive techniques. The fact that a public authority is given this task is however associated with a number of risks. The law can be misinterpreted, and bias can influence the actions of the individual police officer.
In this theory-oriented study, I approach police-powers from a governmentality-perspective. Fundamental to the perspective is that it allows the researcher to consider governance as an ‘activity’ and not a question about ‘who’ governs. By using governmentality, specifically how certain disposítifs are used to control the population, I try to show how the police-powers themselves can affect a population without anyone even using them.
Through a reconstruction of two police powers, namely the use-of-force in 10 § Polislagen (Police Act), especially low intensive use of force, and visitation 19 § Polislagen (Police Act). In order to get an overall picture of the powers, the connection to fundamental rights and definitions of legal concepts such as police intervention and coercion are also described. I then use the reconstruction to analyze the law from a governmentality perspective.
The results show that the police powers are defined by the fact that they cannot be applied in a preliminary investigation setting, that they are discretionary, and that they have a special connection to police intervention. Use of force is legitimate as long as several principles are abided by and that low intensive force will usually be proportional. What the governmentality-perspective shows are that the regulation is productive as it contributes to the creation and arranging of subjectivities. The disposítif is based on the discursive connections between the police discretionary abilities, legal principles, and the discourse on rights that permeates the regulation. This structure of the dispositíf allows for the police to control and organize the population. The legal discourse about police powers creates subjectivities and in the same moment also legitimizes interference and exclusion of these subjectivities.}},
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