Domestic violence is an extensive social problem that family law secretaries are familiar with. Yet there seems to be a blindness and ignorance to subsequent violence that is not established within the practice as a matter of course and is not given any decisive importance in family law secretaries' assessments. The purpose of our study is to understand how family law secretaries reason about

“Together for belonging” : A case study in a not-for-profit group for immigrant mothers in Rosengård This essay examines how immigrant women in Malmö (Rosengård), use a not-for-profit group to find ways to navigate their everyday lives. The aim of the study is to get a deeper understanding of the functioning of the group. As an ethnographic case study, I participated as an observer during group me

Ett anställningsavtal förutsätter att arbetsgivaren och arbetstagaren respekterar och agerar lojalt gentemot varandra. Som en konsekvens av internets intåg och märkbara ökning de senaste åren har en debatt uppstått mellan en arbetsgivares krav på lojala arbetstagare utanför arbetstid i kontrast den anställdes rätt till personlig integritet. Denna uppsats avser att analysera och jämföra rättsläget

Den 30 juni 2022 trädde nya lagförändringar i kraft efter att förslaget om reformerad arbetsrätt antagits. En av lagförändringarna var 12 a § i lag (2012:854) om uthyrning av arbetstagare. Denna innebär att kundföretag ska erbjuda tillsvidareanställning för inhyrda arbetstagare som utfört arbete åt företaget på samma driftsenhet i sammanlagt mer än 24 månader under en 36-månaderperiod. LagförändriOn the 30th of June 2022, new law amendments entered into force after proposals for a reformed labor law. One of the proposals was 12 § a in the Agency Work Act. This section determines that client companies must offer permanent employment for hired workers who have worked for the company at the same operating site for a total of more than 24 months during a 36-month period. The legislation is bas

Animals have become more commonly used in social work, yet there is no definitive evidence of the positive effects of animals on a group level. The aim of this study was to understand the function and role of animals in social work, specifically within the context of daily activity centers for people with different kinds of disabilities. We wanted to understand why the animals were used and what d

Since Ethiopia has a high number of recorded adverse birth outcomes, the city of Adama was subjected to a study (Flanagan et al., 2022) that gathered data from 2085 pregnancies. This thesis utilizes that data to investigate the usage of machine learning in environmental epidemiology. Using the classification methods logistic regression, random forest, support vector classifier, and k-nearest neigh

In the spring of 2022 Sweden experienced several riots among counter-protesters in connection with a Danish politician's Islamophobic manifestations. A societal debate was sparked around control, police capabilities and the limits of freedom of expression. The purpose of the current study is to, based on Anne Nassauer's theory from 2019 of paths to protest violence, with the support of pre

The unsustainable work environment of social workers in Swedish social services has been highlighted frequently through various reports. According to various reports, first-line managers in social services seem to play an important role in how to approach an unsustainable work environment. The aim of this study was to analyze how first-line managers in Swedish child social services reflect on soci

In families where parents abuse narcotics, children can be prone to in some aspects taking on their parent's responsibilities. The aim of this study is to explore social workers’ perceptions and experiences of how responsibilities can shift from parents to children in families where the parents abuse narcotics. A qualitative method consisting of semi-structured interviews with six social worke

The aim of this study has been to understand how social workers within financial social assistance reflect in cases where gambling occurs. Six semi-structured interviews were conducted. The sample consisted of six social workers working withing financial assistance from two municipalities. The results show that a client’s account statement was central to discovering the occurrence of gambling duri

Syftet med studien var att undersöka sambandet mellan upplevda sociala hierarkier och de fyra arbetsmiljöaspekterna krav, kontroll, sociala samspel och socialt kapital hos gymnasielärare i Sverige. De två forskningsfrågorna var: 1. Samverkar närvaron och nivån inom upplevda sociala hierarkier med de självskattade aspekterna av den psykosociala arbetsmiljön för lärare på gymnasieskolor? 2. SamverkaThe purpose of the study was to examine the connection between experienced social hierarchies and the psychosocial work environment aspects demands, control, social interaction and social capital among high school teachers in Sweden. The two research questions were: 1. Does the presence and level within perceived social hierarchies interact with the self-assessed aspects of the psychosocial work e

The objective of this bachelor thesis is to assess the safe haven property of Bitcoin by conducting an augmented Dickey-Fuller test and Engle and Granger cointegration test with price data from the COVID-19 crash. The analysis revealed a cointegration relationship between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, indicating a long-run equilibrium between the two and thus providing evidence against the safe hav

Idag finns det uppsägningsregler inom arbetsrätten som möjliggör det för arbetsgivaren att särbehandla på grund av ålder vid anställningens upphörande, vilket resulterar i att arbetstagare kan komma att missgynnas på grund av ålder. Samtidigt finns det diskrimineringsregler som ska skydda mot åldersdiskriminering, bland annat inom arbetslivet. Därför undersöker denna uppsats hur uppsägningsreglernToday, there are termination rules in the labor law which enable the employer to take age into account in certain termination situations, which results in workers being disadvantaged due to age. At the same time, there are discrimination rules to protect against age discrimination in the labor market. Therefore, this essay examines how the termination rules in the Employment Protection Act relate

I den tekniska och globaliserade värld vi lever i idag är arbetsmarknaden väldigt påverkad av olika trender runt om i världen. Tack vare detta så är arbetsmarknadens behov av flexibilitet större än någonsin. Detta gör att bemanningsbranschen har haft en enorm tillväxt de senaste åren. Med denna branschs frammarsch så kommer också utmaningar i arbetsrätten, speciellt när det kommer till trepartsförIn the technological and globalized world we live in today, the labor market is very affected by various trends around the world. Thanks to this, the labor market's need for flexibility is greater than ever. This means that the staffing industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. With the rise of this industry also comes challenges in labor law, especially when it comes to the

The purpose of this study was to get a better understanding of sex as self-injury in the form of prostitution among young women. With a better understanding of this subject, hopefully, signs pointing at sex as self-injury can be identified earlier, which could lead to increased identification of women who live with these behaviors. Thus more preventive work can take place where professionals can c

Den genomförda studien ämnade att besvara två olika frågeställningar: påverkar door-in-the-face-tekniken villigheten att acceptera ett monetärt bud i ett ultimatumspelscenario bestående av två steg, där deltagarna först blev presenterade med ett lägre bud följt av ett högre bud och finns det något personlighetsdrag inom femfaktormodellen som är relaterat till en större benägenhet att acceptera budThe study conducted aimed to answer two different question statements: does the door-in-the-face technique influence willingness to accept a monetary offer in a ultimatum game scenario consisting of two steps, where participants were first presented with a lower bid followed by a higher bid and is there any personality trait within the five-factor model of personality related to a greater tendency

Despite the extent of research on domestic violence, few studies have been conducted on the partner violence to which boys are subject to girls in Sweden. The purpose of my paper was to analyze what support-seeking violent boys choose to talk about when they talk to a support service. Furthermore to investigate how they feel and reflect on their actions and how they relate to change in their relat

In this thesis, we explore the possibility to monitoring hyperkinesia in people who suffer from Parkinson's disease (PD) using sensors in mobile phones. This is done by first collecting data from 25 patients diagnosed with PD by using a sensor-recording smartphone in a bag attached to the stomach, and at the same time let trained professionals make assessments of the degree of which they show

Although the topic of sustainability communication has been extensively studied since the 1970s, there remain gaps and contradictions, e.g. the effectiveness of communication strategies for influencing individual pro-environmental behaviour change. This study continues this discussion: the purpose was to identify what communication interventions are most effective for changing individual intention