"Mot ett narkotikafritt samhälle" En kritisk diskursanalys av narkotikastrafflagens ideologiska grunder.
(2021) RÄSK02 20211Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- Narcotics have been the subject of hard legal regulation and zero tolerance policies in Sweden for more than three decades. This bachelor thesis seeks to examine the ideological grounds which the swedish druglaws are founded upon and maintained through. In order to identifiy these ideologies and understand their impact on the legaslative process a critical discourse analysis have been conducted within the context of four legal documents. The study found that several discourses representing a repressive ideological view established dominance over the area of discussion in the late 80s, which led to the criminalization of personal use of narcotics.
Within the time period that was examined (1988–2016) all of the major legaslative
changes... (More) - Narcotics have been the subject of hard legal regulation and zero tolerance policies in Sweden for more than three decades. This bachelor thesis seeks to examine the ideological grounds which the swedish druglaws are founded upon and maintained through. In order to identifiy these ideologies and understand their impact on the legaslative process a critical discourse analysis have been conducted within the context of four legal documents. The study found that several discourses representing a repressive ideological view established dominance over the area of discussion in the late 80s, which led to the criminalization of personal use of narcotics.
Within the time period that was examined (1988–2016) all of the major legaslative
changes were of some kind of repressive nature. This very much reflected the order of discourse, which mainly contained of discourses explaining the importance of societys moral condemnation of drugs, and the negative effects that drugs have on both users, and society as a whole. The repressive shift of opinion that took place during 1988 reached hegemonic status in the early 90s, which meant that these assumptions and assertions of the problem were left more or less unchallenged. The study conducted that there are primarily two reasons for this. Firstly, the general trends in Swedish criminal policy during the late 80s shifted toward some kind of government issued moral formation. Secondly, the drugproblem is what can be describes as an appropriate societal problem, which means that it serves society a purpose due to its inherent characteristics. (Less)
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- Edberg, Alec LU and Ygberg Collier, William
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- RÄSK02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- Keywords: Druglaws, ideology, legal discourse, narcotics
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- Swedish
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- 9059512
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abstract = {{Narcotics have been the subject of hard legal regulation and zero tolerance policies in Sweden for more than three decades. This bachelor thesis seeks to examine the ideological grounds which the swedish druglaws are founded upon and maintained through. In order to identifiy these ideologies and understand their impact on the legaslative process a critical discourse analysis have been conducted within the context of four legal documents. The study found that several discourses representing a repressive ideological view established dominance over the area of discussion in the late 80s, which led to the criminalization of personal use of narcotics.
Within the time period that was examined (1988–2016) all of the major legaslative
changes were of some kind of repressive nature. This very much reflected the order of discourse, which mainly contained of discourses explaining the importance of societys moral condemnation of drugs, and the negative effects that drugs have on both users, and society as a whole. The repressive shift of opinion that took place during 1988 reached hegemonic status in the early 90s, which meant that these assumptions and assertions of the problem were left more or less unchallenged. The study conducted that there are primarily two reasons for this. Firstly, the general trends in Swedish criminal policy during the late 80s shifted toward some kind of government issued moral formation. Secondly, the drugproblem is what can be describes as an appropriate societal problem, which means that it serves society a purpose due to its inherent characteristics.}},
author = {{Edberg, Alec and Ygberg Collier, William}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Mot ett narkotikafritt samhälle" En kritisk diskursanalys av narkotikastrafflagens ideologiska grunder.}},
year = {{2021}},
}