Vem lyssnar på barnen?
(2024) SOPB63 20241School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to investigate how social services and the judiciary see and assess the child's best interests based on legal cases. The focus is on how the child's best interests are taken into account and how the child's voice is being heard. With the critical discourse analysis, we want to gain an insight into what this may be due to and how social services and the law viewed the various cases. We made a criteria-based selection and chose to analyze three different legal cases that have the criterion that they address children who have been killed in some way. To get answers to our questions, we have chosen a qualitative approach in the form of discourse analysis. By studying the language in the texts we analyze, we get the... (More)
- The purpose of this study is to investigate how social services and the judiciary see and assess the child's best interests based on legal cases. The focus is on how the child's best interests are taken into account and how the child's voice is being heard. With the critical discourse analysis, we want to gain an insight into what this may be due to and how social services and the law viewed the various cases. We made a criteria-based selection and chose to analyze three different legal cases that have the criterion that they address children who have been killed in some way. To get answers to our questions, we have chosen a qualitative approach in the form of discourse analysis. By studying the language in the texts we analyze, we get the opportunity to see how it presents reality. By focusing on a critical discourse analysis, we search for connections between language in our empirical research and power and social work. To do that, we based our study on a text analysis. This is because in our case mainly judicial rulings and preliminary investigations as empirical evidence is a flexible way to examine how the concepts of the child's best interest and the child's voice emerge in the judiciary and social services and how they are used in practice. In conclusion, a common thread is that the best interests of the child are often overshadowed by current norms and which attitude the parents have. This means in practice that the child's best interests are a hollow concept that can be filled based on the surrounding context. This means that when we have a norm in society that says that parents and children belong together and that a family should be seen as a unit, the best interests of the child are compatible with the best interests of the family even if this is not the case. Furthermore, it appears that there are many stress conditions in the various cases. The parents argue for their right to the children rather than the children's right to their parents. Nevertheless, the cases are treated as a struggle for the parents to retain their right to be a parent rather than what's best for the child. (Less)
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- author
- Lundgren, Pernilla LU and Almqvist Andersson, Zoe LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOPB63 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- child’s best interest, child’s voice, critical discourse analysis, social work, barnets bästa, barnets röst, kritisk diskursanalys, socialt arbete
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9159684
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-07 12:29:16
- date last changed
- 2024-06-07 12:29:16
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abstract = {{The purpose of this study is to investigate how social services and the judiciary see and assess the child's best interests based on legal cases. The focus is on how the child's best interests are taken into account and how the child's voice is being heard. With the critical discourse analysis, we want to gain an insight into what this may be due to and how social services and the law viewed the various cases. We made a criteria-based selection and chose to analyze three different legal cases that have the criterion that they address children who have been killed in some way. To get answers to our questions, we have chosen a qualitative approach in the form of discourse analysis. By studying the language in the texts we analyze, we get the opportunity to see how it presents reality. By focusing on a critical discourse analysis, we search for connections between language in our empirical research and power and social work. To do that, we based our study on a text analysis. This is because in our case mainly judicial rulings and preliminary investigations as empirical evidence is a flexible way to examine how the concepts of the child's best interest and the child's voice emerge in the judiciary and social services and how they are used in practice. In conclusion, a common thread is that the best interests of the child are often overshadowed by current norms and which attitude the parents have. This means in practice that the child's best interests are a hollow concept that can be filled based on the surrounding context. This means that when we have a norm in society that says that parents and children belong together and that a family should be seen as a unit, the best interests of the child are compatible with the best interests of the family even if this is not the case. Furthermore, it appears that there are many stress conditions in the various cases. The parents argue for their right to the children rather than the children's right to their parents. Nevertheless, the cases are treated as a struggle for the parents to retain their right to be a parent rather than what's best for the child.}},
author = {{Lundgren, Pernilla and Almqvist Andersson, Zoe}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Vem lyssnar på barnen?}},
year = {{2024}},
}