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Sammanfattning: Gang crime, firearm violence, and the recruitment of children and youth have become increasingly visible in Sweden. Given the awareness of the negative impact of gang crime on society, it is of the utmost importance to address the issues it entails. This study examines social workers' attitudes toward police collaboration regarding children and young people involved in gang crime. The purpose of this study was to investigate, through a quantitative method, whether various factors influence social workers' attitudes toward police efforts in collaboration. These factors include obstacles, short or long work experience, and experiences of collaboration. What we found was a correlation between experiences and attitudes, reflecting the perception that the previous studies have demonstrated. Furthermore, we found that different types of obstacles in collaboration and the length of work experience affect social workers' attitudes in various ways. The results showed that the more positive experiences social workers had, the better their attitudes were. The most common obstacles, such as “confidentiality” and “resource shortages”, did not affect attitudes negatively. What we also found was that those who chose "different problem perception" as an obstacle were more likely to have negative attitudes than those who didn’t. Furthermore, the results showed that individuals with long work experience had better attitudes than those with short work experience, which turned out to be the opposite of the implications of our chosen theory and previous research.