The main purpose with this essay is to understand the motivation behind norms concerning collection of fee and compensation to victims from a group of people to pay convicted persons fee and compensation to victims. In this essay I assume that the motivation in the norm is that the judgement is wrong. By using the method trial and error I will test the assumption. I will also try to explain what c

In contemporary research on foster care there is little research on what impact fostering has on relationships between the members of the carer’s biological family, and how family as a whole becomes affected. The questions we intended to look at were the following: (1) How do family members experience changes in the life of their family when they started to foster? (2) What strategies have been us

This thesis is the result of a minor field work in a coastal Bangladesh village where peoples are struggling to adapt with salt water intrusion. It describes how people in one community under climatic change or variability adapt to an acute problem, and how their perceptions of that environment, their Ethnoecology influence this response. To make sense my primary and secondary data I have used ada

Abstract The aim of our essay was to study how attendants in forensic psychiatry experience their work situation, how they see forensic psychiatry as an institution and survey how they experience the relationship between themselves as professionals and their patients. In our essay we have primarily used previous research on psychiatry, but we have also used semi-structured interviews in our sear

My intentions with this essay are to highlight the importance of leadership for gender integration. Some professions have big differences in the distribution between men and women, for example in social work. What opportunities and constraints do we have to affect the equality between men and women? And maybe a more important question –What can leaders do to increase equality? My purpose is to an

The purpose with this essay was to investigate which kind of norms prison warders have about female inmates in a Swedish prison for women. I also examined where norms about female inmates cause from. The study is based on a survey that I have made with nine prison warders. Michel Foucaults theory of power and discipline, gender theories by Frances Heidensohn, Simone De Beauvoir, Ingrid Lander and

Sverige är en representativ demokrati, vilket innebär att vi väljer de personer vi vill ska styra samt har möjlighet att uttrycka våra åsikter tack vare yttrandefriheten. Ändå finns det dem som väljer att handla på ett brottsligt sätt för att påvisa fel eller orättvisor i samhället. I En uthållig demokrati anses att rätten bör ta hänsyn till personens moraliska motiv i mål som handlar om civil oly

The aim of this study was twofolded; on one hand I have been studying how the social services and the women’s crisis center work to contribute to assaulted women’s need of support and protection, while on the other hand I have been analyzing how discursive categories from the group of women addicted to alcohol is being made by professionals. The reason for this purpose was that I would like to see

In recent years, school have taken on the responsibility to, in a higher degree, concentrate on social fostering and preventive measures in order to help children with conduct disorder. This paper deals with the question how the educational system works around children with special needs. The focus lies in mapping out the prevailing strategies and the driving forces behind alternative schooling. T

The aim of this study was to examine international adoptees' reflections of the own ethnic identity. Through semi-structured interviews, six adult adoptees shared their experiences from their childhood and the present concerning identity. Five different themes were used in the interviews to discuss identity; reflections of the self, interactions with the adoptive family, interactions with same

The purpose of this study was to examine how professionals within the social services who work with drug abuse think and feel about methadone and subutex as a treatment against heroin addiction. I have used qualitative interviews to receive information about the respondent’s experiences, views and attitudes. I have interviewed three social workers from different municipalities. The municipalities

The purpose of this study was to examine how Sweden organizes their adoption education program since it differs from adoption agencies in Canada. The aim was to find out why Sweden has a different organizational strategy compared to an adoption agency in British Columbia in Canada when the content in the adoption education program basically is the same in both countries. It was of interest to exam

Vi lever idag i ett globaliserat samhälle där möjligheten till att resa inte längre är ett privilegium få förunnat. Dock är möjligheten att möta ursprungsbefolkningar och deras kulturer vanligtvis inte en del av det vanliga resmålet. Genom televisionens makt att kunna förmedla kunskap om andra kulturer samt bli en del av vår egen identifiering har vi valt att inrikta vår undersökning på den konstr

The purpose of this study has been to describe and analyze the views of the staff working at substitute receptions and at a social services abuse unity regarding sustenance treatment and at the same time distinguish different factors of influence. My introductory line of question has been to find out the thoughts and ideas of the staff regarding sustenance treatments. Furthermore I wanted to find

Due to the fast pace of the developments within the media world reflection on its impact on young people and children is a hot topic. To have a successful impact in protecting them from media influence that can be harmful there has to be a cohesive understanding of the need for protection. On the 9th of June a commission submitted a report suggesting that the film – censorship for adults according

The purpose of this study was to examine how social workers, in the social services department of economical aid, are affected by the increasing number of clients. More specifically we focused on how the social workers job situation as a whole, how the feelings of their work and the ability to reach the goals of the organizations was affected by the changing circumstances. To examine this we used

Clients suffering from dual diagnosis are often an exposed group within social work. This particular group ends up between treatment because of a mental illness or from drug abuse. According to research these clients get their needs met through different organizations cooperation. The purpose of this essay was to create an understanding of the difficulties in working with this distinct group and t

Denna psykologexamensuppsats undersöker användbarheten av den nya svenska versionen av The Adaptive Behavior Assessment System – second edition (ABAS-II), ett standardiserat psykologiskt instrument vilket bedömer adaptiva färdigheter via föräldra- och lärarskattningar. Tjugofem föräldra- och lärarskattningar gällande ungdomar/elever i gymnasiesärskola, varav majoriteten hade diagnosen mental retarThis paper investigates the usability of the new Swedish version of The Adaptive Behavior Assessment System – second edition (ABAS-II), which is a standardized psychological instrument, used for estimating adaptive skills by parent and teacher ratings. Twenty five parent and teacher ratings on adolescents/students in upper secondary special school, the majority with the diagnosis mental retardatio

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