The purpose of this essay was to examine what kind of efforts were made in connection to the release of internees. We have studied the available statistics and litterature of the subject. We have also interviewed severals local authoritys and voluntary organisations whom are involved in the rehabilitation of criminals. Our main questions was which efforts were made before, during and after the rea

The purpose of this essay was to obtain knowledge of how some young people in Sweden experiences institutional care. Our main questions were: Do the young people feel that they can participate their treatment? Do the young people feel that their days at the institution seem meaningful? Do the young people feel that they get information about their treatment plan? Have the young people any knowledg

The purpose of this essay was to clarify the method of Active Parenting. I also wanted to search for the sources in the society that made this method arise. I also wanted to get answer on what qualities an active parent needed and if the method Active Parenting could inform the parenthood with important resource for supporting the parents. In my studie I have used previous literature facts and int

Cooperation is elementary for any relationship to prosper and basic values must be respected and reconciled. Consequently Global Cooperation becomes imperative when all kinds of relationships rapidly expand to span the entire globe. Thus personal as well as national concerns become global. The intention with this essay was to convey some information about the issue of transnational child custody d

This essay is a qualitative study on the adolescence of immigrant youth. The main purpose of the study was to make research on five immigrant youths experiences of how the impulses from different cultures have an influence on their identity work. The questions raised in the study concerned the everyday life of the youths, how the interaction between different cultures effected the youths thoughts

The purpose with this essay, was to examine how the social workers in Malmö´s Social welfare services describe the needs of the psychosocial treatment to clients with methadone maintenance treatment and what kind of efforts they can offer to this group of clients. To attain this purpose we focused on these following questions How do the social workers define the problems and the needs of a heroin

The purpose with this descriptive study was to study the practice of remain in ordinary living for elderly and see how the principle can be applied even now and within the future. What is the principle of remain in ordinary living and how can it be applied? What is a special geriatric care home for elderly? Does the concept, special geriatric care home has to be explained, in order to understand t

The object of this essay was to examine the concept of culture and cross culture encounters by studying the group meetings for immigrants at IM, The Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief, in Lund through a cross cultural perspective. The framing questions were: - How can the concept of culture and cross cultural encounters be comprehended and defined? - What does culture and cross cultural en

The immigration politics in Sweden has consisted of two different ideologies during the last century. Until the seventies the immigrants who didn´t return to their home countries were expected to assimilate to the Swedish society, in 1974 the integration model was put into practice. The official reason of the decision was that assimilation was considered immoral and undemocratic. Some researchers

We wanted to compare the activity in Swedish Red Cross during two chosen years. We have only looked at the national level. The years we chose to compare were 1989 and 2000. The reason we chose to compare the activity was to find out if and how this activity has changed. We used theories made by Lundström and Svedberg to help us chose variables to build our comparison on. We also used their theory

The object of this essay is to examinate if there exist any values and moral aspects of the politics of voluntary returning home of refugees. The questions in issue are the following: - When is it of importance to argue voluntary returning home? Is it when integration does not work, or has it always been topic of interest? - In what degree has values and different ideas about “the best for the ref

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the networks meaning for youths sense of safety. The main questions were: ¤ How can a network for a youth look like today? Is there any difference between boys or girls network? Which? ¤ What does safety mean for youths today? Is there any difference in the description of safety between boys and girls? ¤ Which part of the network constitutes the greatest

The aim of this research was to reflect the view that immigrants with a Muslim background had on elders and their situation in Sweden. The questions on which the research was based upon were: Which knowledge's has an individual with a Muslim background about elderly in Sweden? Which attitudes have an individual with a Muslim background towards elderly? Which attitudes have an individual with a

The aim of our essay was to examine how persons working within social services, municipal psychiatry and county council psychiatry in Hässleholm understand collaboration between the organisations when it comes to clients who have an abuse problem combined with a mental disorder. We have found the following questions useful: 1. How is the collaboration between the organisations described and what p

The point of departure for this thesis was to study the phenomenon of increasing vandalism, specifically instances of stone throwing during the years of 2002 and 2003 in Rosengård. Located in the city of Malmö, Sweden, Rosengård has, like many other big city suburbs in Europe, turned into an ethnic enclave, inhabited mostly by under-privileged immigrants, many of which suffer from social exclusion

This essay mean to describe treatment in foster care in a special method called Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care. My purpose is to study the cost and consequences for break down in family placement through to MTFC-method with starting point in one particularly case. The MTFC-method treats adolescents with chronic delinquency and antisocial behaviour. It’s an alternative to residential treatm

This is a qualitative study of how the youth in the graffiti subculture of Bromma look upon their own situation. The main research questions of the study were: How do the writers define graffiti? Why do the writers, of this study, start to do graffiti? What attractions do the writers find with graffiti? What various reasons would make them stop? The empirical base consisted of seven interviews wit

This is a 10 Swedish credits essay at the sixth term of the programme for social studies at the University of Lund. The purpose of the composition was to examine how the "individual programme" is established and how it serves. The framing of the questions has been; how the programme is established; how to get admitted as a pupil; how the schools serve to reach their purposes; how the pup

The purpose of this essay was to examine how the identity changes during time in prison. I also wanted to look at the processes that makes this change possible. I wanted to examine in what extension those processes are deliberate strategies, or if they are a natural product of life in prison. The methods in this study are interviews with prisoners and personal in two different prisons, and the sci