The aim of this essay has been to study the work of personal agents in Kristianstad. Personal agents was initiated by National Government with the purpose to recognize the needs of mentally disabled, and through a function as coordinaters give a better support to these clients. The main questions in this study are focused on the personal agents experience of their work, and how clients and their i

Our purpose was to study different actors opinion about what reasons there are to homelessness among young abusers in Malmö. When we are talking about young abusers we mean those who are under 25 years old. Our central questions were: Which reasons could different actors see? Were the actor’s view of the reasons the same or were there any difference? How was the cooperation between the different a

Each year about 25 000 people in Sweden contract brain injuries. The aim of my study was to find out how people with an acquired brain injury change their self- consciousness, because of changed relations to the networks. The network was divided into the social network: family and self-chosen relations, and the professional network: Human Service Organizations based upon occupation and characteriz

Our purpose was to elucidate the situation of asylum children that lives in Sweden. As we sat out to do this we had the following central framing of questions: - Who has the ultimate responsibility of the asylum children? - What is the situation of the asylum children in northwestern Skåne? - How does the cooperation between governments function concerning the situation of the asylum children in S

The purpose of this paper was to, from a user perspective examine and describe how the cares of people with learning disabilities in two care residences fulfil stated quality objectives. Another purpose was also to examine if the quality tool, Quest, was useful when evaluating Swedish conditions. The result shows the conditions were good for performing high quality care, but there are certain need

In Swedish society the demands on the adult literacy-rate are very high and due to migration Sweden has gotten a number of adult illiterates. This essay examines what possibilities an illiterate has to learn to write and read and receive possibilities to integrate with Swedish society and become independent. People who can’t read and write and migrates to Sweden shall not just learn the Swedish la

The purpose of this study was to explore how the arguments for and against syringe exchange has been, in what way both parties opinions differ, and how they give weight to their arguments. We used a method called discourse analysis in this study. One can describe discourse as a way of describing the world by using words. The foundation for this work has been collected in interviews and newspaper a

The purpose of this essay was to describe, from a perspective of gender, how girls, from the eighth and ninth grade in school explained bullying and sexual harassment and how bullying and sexual harassment was explained in topical research. The main issues were: 1. What does bullying and sexual harassment mean? 2. Who becomes a bully and who becomes a sexual harasser? 3. Why do they bully or sexua

The historical development has created new conditions for women. Today is the woman expected to do good both with her children and at her work. The purpose of this essay was to examine if the woman feel stress in the combination between parenthood and her work. We also wanted to see if there was a connection between mothers stress and the children's stress. The method used was qualitative inve

This composition is based on a rural district with 14 000 inhabitants. It's an agricultural district with much summer tourism. During the last five to ten years the summer tourists have started to by houses in the district. They can offer a lot more than the locals. The consequences will be that the locals will live in specific areas that are less attractive. Four interviews have been made wit

The problem I investigated was about man whom commited sexual outrage. My purpose with this problem was to know how to understand a man who commited sexual outrage. I used a qualitative method in order to illuminate the problem. To investigate my problem I met two male prisoners whom commited this kind of crime. The questions I used was divided in three topics: "How was the situation for the

The purpose of our essay was to investigate whether a certain group of young people felt that they had a chance to live according to the rules and standards that rule our society through certain given support actions. Central issues were, e.g., if we could understand the situation of the adolescents through certain theories about social background and integration. Were the adolescents considered a

Our purpose with this paper was to examine how new recruitment of personnel were done and how new recruitment of people with an immigrant background was done. The purpose was also to see what kind of qualifications that are requested now and in the future and also if diversity is aimed at. We were interested to see the current situation at the local authorities and at private companies in Helsingb

In this thesis-project I set out to write an overview of the discourse on poverty, with a selected number of international institutions and other representatives from three main camps portrayed. This is a debate which has been very much in focus lately. My main objective has been to explore the definitions and causes of poverty in today's world, according to the different views, and also what

The aim of this Master's thesis was to examine how the Canadian evidence-based programme Cognitive Skills was adopted and implemented in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The questions asked in this study aimed first at clarifying the programme's theoretical and ideological background based on a description of "What Works". Secondly, the implementation process was present

This essay deals with eight women, who all left their native country Bosnia because of the war. Before the flight, each individual is a human being with a role and a place in the structure of society. After the flight, she suddenly finds herself in an unknown community, after having lost her land, her culture, family, friends and identity. The purpose of this essay was to try to give a backdrop of

This thesis is a meta-evaluation of a specific evaluation; "Demokrati och delaktighet? Delrapport om Storstadssatsningen i Fosie, Hyllie och Södra Innerstaden" . My thesis concerns two of the three district city councils mentioned in the title, in the City of Malmö, and their way of handling the government initiative Storstadssatsningen. The initiative is aiming to promote strategies to

The purpose of this essay was to examine how juvenile delinquents are treated by society. I chose to exemplify this by looking at a relatively recent formed government agency; Youth Offending Team (YOT) and Galleries of Justice which is a museum of Law. They work together with a wide range of youth projects starting with youths who are at risk of offending all the way to convicted criminals. In or