Preventivt arbete mot våldsbejakande extremism ur ett lokalt perspektiv : En kvalitativ studie av hur samordnare och representanter för socialtjänsten, skolan och polisen arbetar mot våldsbejakande extremism

Sammanfattning: This study is aming to examine how municipal instances understand and work to prevent violent extremism. The study illustrates how the local coordinator in a swedish municipality together with representatives from the social service, the school and the police work against autonomous left, white power environment and violent Islamist extremists. I have used Sahlins (2000) theory of crime prevention and Lipskys (2010) theory of street level bureaucracies to analyze the empirical.  To get a deeper understanding how the actors define and work with the problem I have used semistrutcured interviews with a local coordinator, two polices, two field assistants, two polices and one teacher. Even if violent extremism is expression of political opinion or religious belief the municipality means that alienation is the reason why people involve themselves in violent extremism. As a consequense the municipality have integrated the preventing work in their regular crimepreventing work.   The prevention work is characterized of both workdivision, where each profession mind its own working area, and cooperation, wich gives a good view of the situation in the municipality. Since there are consensus that the main goal is to prevent alienation the study picturize a functioning cooperation with few conflicts between the professions that is included in this crimepreventing work.