Den postpolitiska kriminalpolitiken

Sammanfattning: Crime politics was in 2015 described as becoming increasingly post political where politicians advocate for similar solutions regardless of their ideological standpoint. Simultaneously gang related crime gets progressively more media coverage and public attention in Sweden. The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent Swedish crime politics was post political in 2022. Assuming all political expressions are ideologically constructed this is done with a qualitative approach using ideological analysis. Mats Lindberg’s analytical framework enabled the material to be analysed both regarding policy proposals and the reasoning behind them. The primary analytical material consists of Sweden’s three biggest political parties and their manifestos published before the 2022 election. The analysis shows that crime politics in Sweden is becoming continuously conservative focusing on controlling the population and increasing prison sentences to reduce crime. The parties can in varying amounts stay true to their ideology in their motivation of their suggested policies. Other themes found in the material are a description of crime rates as escalating and the perceived insecurity from the public which are used to motivate policies.