Socialtjänstens arbete mot ungdomskriminalitet : En kvalitativ studie om socialtjänstens arbete med att förebygga och motverka ungdomskriminalitet

Sammanfattning: The study “social services work against youth criminality” purpose is to develop knowledge about how employees in the social services describe the causes of youth criminality and how to prevent and work against youth criminality. Our data has been collected from five interviews with contributors from the social services. The theories used in the study are stigma, empowerment and Payne ́s three perspectives within social work. The collected data shows that the most important social factors that can prevent and get youngster out of criminality are parents, school and the environment itself. This is what the social services mainly works on with their crime prevention work. The study is based on qualitative interviews, with help from a semistructured interview guide. The main results show that youngsters with poor schooling and parenthood are the reason why they end up in a criminal path. This is also what the social services focus on mostly, in order to prevent youth criminality in collaboration between the social services and youngster's environment, which are primarily the school and the parents.