"Bara för att jag är kriminell, är jag ändå en människa" : En studie om hur män och kvinnor som har begått brott upplever att de bemöts av myndigheter

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to, with a phenomenological approach, investigate how men and women who have committed crimes are being treated by relevant authorities. Four qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed. The results of these interviews showed that the informants perceived that they were being treated on the basis of stereotyped beliefs, that these beliefs differed depending on whether they were men or women and that this led to negative consequences for the informants. The result was then analyzed by gender theory and stigmatization. This gave an increased understanding of how gender is being constructed in the treatment and how the informants were stigmatized in interaction with authorities and discriminated because of the stereotypical beliefs that the authorities have about them as a person. Based on this, the result showed that the male informants were stigmatized as criminals and discriminated to a greater extent than the female informants, which was based on authorities' stereotyped beliefs about men linked to crime.