Friskolereformens effekter: bristande trygghet och likvärdighet : En policyanalys av friskolereformen och skolsegregationen samt kopplingen till kriminalitet

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to examine the political debate regarding the private school reform and school segregation and distinguish any eventual associations with criminality by conducting a policy analysis. The background and previous research of the study exhibited an increasing trend in criminality in Sweden concentrated in the socially vulnerable areas which are characterized by a high number of migrants. The private school reform has led to school segregation in which students with similar ethnic backgrounds are aggregated in the same schools causing homogenous groups of students in the schools. State-owned schools are affected poorly by this as the private-owned schools can choose their students and tend to choose the cost-effective students with good grades leaving the other students to the state-owned schools. The theoretical frameworks for the study were: social constructionism, discourse theory, stigmatisation, moral panic, and othering. The study was conducted with Carol Bacchi’s “What’s the problem represented to be?” discourse method which was used on eight parliamentary procedures each authored by the eight political parties in the Swedish parliament. The results of the study showed two main discourses that could be distinguished in the empiricism: safety and equality thus the problem being unsafety and inequality. All the political parties used these concepts with different implications although commonly as an ambition for the school system. Unsafety in the school system was connected to crime, socially vulnerable areas and the students linked to the areas. All the documents, with exception of one, mentioned school segregation as a problem. Many parties argued that criminality was a result of the school system and segregation. The consequences of the results include stigmatisation and othering of the students associated with the socially vulnerable areas and thus causing moral panic amongst the readers.