Att misstänka: en intervjustudie av anmälningsskyldiga aktörers rutiner och erfarenheter rörande orosanmälningar

Sammanfattning: The overall purpose of thesis is to describe and understand how the law of duty to report child abuse works in practice from the perspective of the officials obligated to report. Interviews with several of these officials has been used in this thesis to collect data with the purpose of establishing their actual routines and experiences in these matters. The data has been analyzed from a street-level bureaucratic perspective using the theories of Michael Lipsky and from a norm scientific perspective using theories of Matthias Baier and Måns Svensson. The results of this study conclude that the law of duty to report child abuse conduce to both difficulties and ease in the work of the officials, which affects their work and thus the workings of the law. In some places is the largest gap between the law and how it applies a result of the lack of specific routines and guidelines to be followed by “the street-level bureaucrats”.