Varför begår ungdomar brott? En kvalitativ studie om socialarbetares syn på ungdomar som begår brott
(2023) SOPB63 20222School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to gain insight into social workers’ views on young people who commit crimes, focusing on juvenile delinquency risk factors and the social work that is done for young people who commit crimes. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with ten social workers who have experience working with young people who commit crimes. The interviews were analyzed using Sahlin’s (1994) theory of social work clients being seen as villains or wretches. The results of this study show that young people who commit crimes are described as villains when social workers talk about the young people’s behavior as a risk factor, and those same young people are described as wretches when social workers talk about their... (More)
- The purpose of this study was to gain insight into social workers’ views on young people who commit crimes, focusing on juvenile delinquency risk factors and the social work that is done for young people who commit crimes. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with ten social workers who have experience working with young people who commit crimes. The interviews were analyzed using Sahlin’s (1994) theory of social work clients being seen as villains or wretches. The results of this study show that young people who commit crimes are described as villains when social workers talk about the young people’s behavior as a risk factor, and those same young people are described as wretches when social workers talk about their feelings and mental health as risk factors. Our study showed that a social worker’s preconceptions of young people who commit crimes can be nuanced and that social workers can see a young person both as a villain and as a wretch. When it came to the work that the social workers do, we found that the social workers’ goal was to do what was best for the young person and to not treat the young people as villains, but rather as wretches, according to Sahlin (1994) theory. (Less)
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- author
- Strandberg, Selma LU and El-Baba, Diana LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Why do young people commit crime? - A qualitative study of social workers’ view on young people who commit crime
- course
- SOPB63 20222
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Juvenile delinquency, social worker, social work, villain, wretch, preconception
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9108071
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-20 20:01:05
- date last changed
- 2023-01-20 20:01:05
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abstract = {{The purpose of this study was to gain insight into social workers’ views on young people who commit crimes, focusing on juvenile delinquency risk factors and the social work that is done for young people who commit crimes. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with ten social workers who have experience working with young people who commit crimes. The interviews were analyzed using Sahlin’s (1994) theory of social work clients being seen as villains or wretches. The results of this study show that young people who commit crimes are described as villains when social workers talk about the young people’s behavior as a risk factor, and those same young people are described as wretches when social workers talk about their feelings and mental health as risk factors. Our study showed that a social worker’s preconceptions of young people who commit crimes can be nuanced and that social workers can see a young person both as a villain and as a wretch. When it came to the work that the social workers do, we found that the social workers’ goal was to do what was best for the young person and to not treat the young people as villains, but rather as wretches, according to Sahlin (1994) theory.}},
author = {{Strandberg, Selma and El-Baba, Diana}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Varför begår ungdomar brott? En kvalitativ studie om socialarbetares syn på ungdomar som begår brott}},
year = {{2023}},
}