Skolans roll i arbetet mot gängkriminalitet
(2022) STVK02 20212Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Organized crime in Sweden has increased despite the Government’s 34-point action program against gang crime. Previous studies show that schools have an important role in preventing young people from entering the criminal life. But there are no Swedish studies that examine teachers’ implementation of crime prevention measures and therefore, there seems to be a need to investigate this. The research question of this study is therefore: ”How do teachers implement crime prevention measures in primary schools in socially disadvantaged areas?”. In order to answer the research question, semi-structured interviews have been used and the results have been analyzed by the help of theories of implementation, local bureaucrats, social ties and... (More)
- Organized crime in Sweden has increased despite the Government’s 34-point action program against gang crime. Previous studies show that schools have an important role in preventing young people from entering the criminal life. But there are no Swedish studies that examine teachers’ implementation of crime prevention measures and therefore, there seems to be a need to investigate this. The research question of this study is therefore: ”How do teachers implement crime prevention measures in primary schools in socially disadvantaged areas?”. In order to answer the research question, semi-structured interviews have been used and the results have been analyzed by the help of theories of implementation, local bureaucrats, social ties and cooperation. The results show that there is an understandning among the respondents (teachers) that teachers have an important role in the work against gang crime and there is a willingness to implement crime prevention measues but this cannot always be implemented due to lack of resources. (Less)
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- author
- Knezevic, Maja LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20212
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- skola, gängkriminalitet, socialt utsatta områden, implementering, brottsförebyggande
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9070411
- date added to LUP
- 2022-03-14 12:11:43
- date last changed
- 2022-03-14 12:11:43
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