Jag är en människa och jag är en människa som har dödat någon annan : En kvalitativ studie om försonings- och medlingsverksamhet

Sammanfattning: There has been an increase in the deadly violence with firearms and with that an increase in drug dealing. Because of that politicians have toughed up the debate on how to deal with it, where longer and harder punishments seem to be the way to go. The persons who are most likely to get caught up in the violence are men in the ages 15-29 years old, where not only drugs are the main reason, but also the socioeconomic- and demographic differences in our country will be a factor. The retributive justice system is still the dominating one, but reparative justice is getting bigger within Sweden too, it’s just not yet on the same level as in other countries. The purpose of this thesis was to know more about the experiences and challenges that the professionals have that work with reconciliation and mediation. A qualitative method with semi structured interviews has been used to interview two professionals working at Försoningsgruppen and two professionals working at Medlingsverksamheten in Lund. To analyze the results I used theories about shame, guilt, the other and theories about moral and empathy. The results from the interviews showed that to be able to reconcile, the person who has done wrong needs to be able to feel guilt and to take on genuine and full responsibility for their actions. It also showed that the person that has done wrong needs to take on a new identity, an identity of both being a human and a human that has done harm to another person. They need to become the other, and that is one hard thing to accept.