Mot en "gemensam tratt"? En intervjustudie om samverkan i kommunalt brottsförebyggande arbete
(2024) RÄSK02 20241Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- Since the 1990s, Swedish crime prevention has been characterised by decentralisation and responsabilisation of a growing number of actors such as county councils, municipalities, the business community and civil society. This tendency has also called for increased cooperation. On 1 July 2023, the municipal role and responsibility in this area was stipulated through the Act (SFS 2023:196) on municipalities’ responsibility for crime prevention work. The law requires each municipality to compile a situational picture and an action plan, coordinate the local crime prevention work, and increase cooperation efforts with relevant stakeholders. However, previous research shows few such collaborative projects that have been perceived as effective.
... (More) - Since the 1990s, Swedish crime prevention has been characterised by decentralisation and responsabilisation of a growing number of actors such as county councils, municipalities, the business community and civil society. This tendency has also called for increased cooperation. On 1 July 2023, the municipal role and responsibility in this area was stipulated through the Act (SFS 2023:196) on municipalities’ responsibility for crime prevention work. The law requires each municipality to compile a situational picture and an action plan, coordinate the local crime prevention work, and increase cooperation efforts with relevant stakeholders. However, previous research shows few such collaborative projects that have been perceived as effective.
The purpose of the study was therefore to investigate how municipalities in Skåne County have experienced the implementation of the law mentioned above - especially in terms of how collaboration has taken shape - and hopes regarding future effects of cooperation in crime prevention. Through semi-structured interviews with crime prevention coordinators from nine Scanian municipalities, it was found that the law was perceived to give weight to crime prevention issues on a municipal level. To some extent, the legal responsibility also appeared to have clarified and systematised the cooperation efforts. However, these efforts were not considered fully satisfactory as the coordinators described challenges concerning legal discretion and competing rationalities among actors in the cooperative work that affected the practice of law. Thus, the coordinators wished for specified directives from the legislator, as well as to receive increased resources in terms of finances, time and knowledge. (Less)
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- author
- Ander, Alexandra LU and Rosenthal, Linnea LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- RÄSK02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- brottsprevention, handlingsutrymme, kommun, rationalitet, samverkan
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9169533
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- 2024-07-08 15:54:31
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abstract = {{Since the 1990s, Swedish crime prevention has been characterised by decentralisation and responsabilisation of a growing number of actors such as county councils, municipalities, the business community and civil society. This tendency has also called for increased cooperation. On 1 July 2023, the municipal role and responsibility in this area was stipulated through the Act (SFS 2023:196) on municipalities’ responsibility for crime prevention work. The law requires each municipality to compile a situational picture and an action plan, coordinate the local crime prevention work, and increase cooperation efforts with relevant stakeholders. However, previous research shows few such collaborative projects that have been perceived as effective.
The purpose of the study was therefore to investigate how municipalities in Skåne County have experienced the implementation of the law mentioned above - especially in terms of how collaboration has taken shape - and hopes regarding future effects of cooperation in crime prevention. Through semi-structured interviews with crime prevention coordinators from nine Scanian municipalities, it was found that the law was perceived to give weight to crime prevention issues on a municipal level. To some extent, the legal responsibility also appeared to have clarified and systematised the cooperation efforts. However, these efforts were not considered fully satisfactory as the coordinators described challenges concerning legal discretion and competing rationalities among actors in the cooperative work that affected the practice of law. Thus, the coordinators wished for specified directives from the legislator, as well as to receive increased resources in terms of finances, time and knowledge.}},
author = {{Ander, Alexandra and Rosenthal, Linnea}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Mot en "gemensam tratt"? En intervjustudie om samverkan i kommunalt brottsförebyggande arbete}},
year = {{2024}},
}