Author: Theres Espfors Title: Criminal delinquency – risk factors , a qualitative study. Supervisor: Lars B. Ohlsson Assessor: Staffan Blomberg Criminal Delinquency is by no means a new phenomenon among young males. It has become increasingly serious during the course of the last 20 years and pertinent acts of criminal activity are carried out with much more dangerous and injurious weapons. The un

Being a mother with a history of Eating Disorders Eating disorders are a growing concern among women. This paper examines the possible effect this can have on mothers using three different concepts taken from the same perspective, the symbolic interactionalism. It gives a view of both some of the current research available, a few interviews with women and some women that have been writhing in dif

Discourse on the Internet takes place in a medium that lies on the borderline between the written and the spoken word. Even though texts are undoubtedly written down, terms such as chat, talk and speak are commonly used to describe the exchange of messages. By studying certain features that can be considered characteristic of spoken English (discourse markers and ellipsis), a chat group and a news

Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att skapa en bredare förståelse för hur unga män i multietniska Rosengård i Malmö upplever sin tillvaro. Min analys besvarar hur de unga männen konstruerar etnicitet och vilken betydelse deras bostadsområde Rosengård har i denna process. Studiens empiriska material består av fältanteckningar från deltagande observation på en mötesplats för ungdomar i Rosengår

The main purpose of this study was to achieve an increased understanding of the “good girl” phenomena. The specific purpose was to analyze the “good girl” in the context of everyday life, and in addition the female roles in the family institution. To get the female perception interviews were conducted with four different women who identify themselves as part of a family. The definition of the fami

Title in Swedish: Preventivmedelsrådgivning för vuxna kvinnor med utvecklingsstörning - Ur enhetschefers och god mans perspektiv Title in English: Contraceptive counseling for adult women with mental retardation – From managers and trustees point of view The purpose of this essay was to investigate if there was any guiding principles for how trustees for individuals living in sheltered housings w

Detta examensarbete behandlar ett aktuellt ämne – utmaningarna i att implementera elektroniska konossement i den internationella handeln. Många fördelar kan erhållas om de införs, exempelvis en bättre miljö, lägre kostnader för dokumentation och en enklare metod för att sluta avtal. I examensarbetet kombineras den juridiska metoden med intervjuer och enkäter med olika aktörer i branschen – bankerThis thesis deals with an urgent topic today – the challenges of implementing electronic bills of lading in international trade. Lots of advantages can be gained from introducing them, for example a better environment, lower prices of documentation and an easier contractual procedure. In the master thesis, the legal method is combined with interviews and enquiries with different interested partie

A Life with the Shoah - a study of social work with aging survivors The Holocaust left it´s survivors with open wounds which in many cases still remain “painfully open”, as Elie Wiesel has metaphorically written. This study is not a historical documentation of what happened then and there. It is a study dealing with contemporary social work carried out with aging survivors in order to deal with

Hur integration ska genomföras och vad det egentligen betyder är omdebatterat. Pendeln vajar från assimilering till mångkulturalism. Forskare vittnar om att integrationsbegreppet är paradoxalt då dess innebörd är odefinierad och emellanåt motsägelsefull. I den här uppsatsen undersöks integration utifrån invandrade personers berättelser om likhet, avbrott och särskiljande från majoritetsbefolkninge

Den här uppsatsen är en fallstudie av ett kommunalt initierat projekt som går ut på att erbjuda möjligheter till generationsöverskridande möten i ett socialt utsatt bostadsområde i Malmö. Jag har studerat ett initiativ där kommunen tillsammans med Malmös största fastighetsbolag, MKB, vill skapa en mötesplats som är tänkt att fungera ur ett gräsrotsperspektiv. Genom att redogöra för bakomliggande s

The aim of the study was to take a closer look at the thoughts of a group of adolescent students concerning drug abuse and whether they think it is something one can find a way out of or not. The main questions are: - How are their thoughts about use and misuse of drugs? - Do they believe that a person with a drug abuse problem can quit? - How do they think it is done and what factors may facilita

Abstract Authors: Emelie Karlsson Ånhed and Ellinor Wisjö Title: Collaboration – Maybe, maybe not? Supervisor: Christina Erneling The aim of this study was undertaken with the aim of examining if there is any working collaboration between schools, social services, child/youth psychiatry and the police in the chosen community. We have not implicated a survey with pre-chosen answers, as we feel giv

Author: Karolina Taflin Title: To enlighten the invisible room – Art therapists and their relations to the client. [Translated title] Supervisor: Tabitha Wright Nielsen Assessor: Anna Angelin In art therapy the picture is a way to communicate. This is different from ordinary therapy where the language is the main way of communicating. From a social constructivism viewpoint the reality is always

Elderly mental health, a study of staff in nursing’s knowledge and practice The purpose of this study was to examine how staff in nursing looked on their own knowledge and how they considered mental illness among people over 75 years old. We also described how the staff considers that they are working on the mental health of older people. More specific, the aim was to see what kind of knowledge t

Personal assistance - A qualitative study of the significance of the reform In 1994, a new law, Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS) was implemented as a part of the Swedish welfare system. The purpose of the law is to assure safety for people in one of three target groups that are further defined in 1 §, LSS. The law gives people in these targe

Denna uppsats behandlar frågor om allemansrätt och hur den förhåller sig till olika typer av områdesskydd i 7 kap. Miljöbalken (MB), främst naturreservat. Skyddsformen naturreservat utgör del i en bas av de skyddsinstrument som finns för att skydda värdefulla naturområden. Lagstiftaren framhåller det som viktigt att värna om allemansrätten och att inte begränsa den i onödan i skyddade naturområThis thesis treats questions about common right of access to private land and its relation to different types of protected areas in Chapter 7 of the Environmental Code, considering mainly nature reserve. Nature reserve as a form of protection is part of the elementary forms of protecting valuable nature areas. According to the legislator it is important to uphold the common right of access to pr

The aim of this study is to examine different Swedish municipal upper secondary schools and their attitudes towards drug prevention by drug testing of students, and how come the implementation of drug tests largely distinguishes between different schools. More specifically it aims to find out how come some schools execute numerous of drug tests whilst other don´t execute any, what the benefits ver

Det finns många empiriska exempel, samt forskning, som föreslår att när en vara blir mer svårtillgänglig, ökar även attraktionen och värdet på varan. Detta anses bero på en rad psykologiska effekter som i studien benämns knapphetseffekter. Studien åtar sig att undersöka effekten av knapphet vid ej betydelsefulla värderingssituationer mellan identiska objekt, samt testa om knapphetens orsak gör någ