Normförändring inom subkulturer - En studie om kronvittnessystemets förutsättningar

Sammanfattning: The study has a dual purpose, which is to study what is required for a legislation to have a norm-changing effect. And what conditions a crown witness system has beyond the legal to give the intended effect in Sweden. With a qualitative approach these matters have been studied. Material was collected through two systematic literature reviews regarding a basic picture of what is required for a change in law to have a change in subcultural environments. Empirical material has also been obtained through semi-structured interviews with people knowledgeable of norms and values within criminal networks. The material has been analyzed with theoretically grounded thematic content analysis based on Living law and The Norm model. The results indicate that legitimacy for the norm and legal actors in the population that the norm is aiming towards is required for the legal norm to be implemented. Norms of silence seem to be an instrument of social control existing within criminal networks in Sweden and an example of living law. A lack of legitimacy regarding legal norms and that the norm of silence is rooted in strong collective values. And a low perceived behavioral control regarding getting out of the criminal environment. There also seems to be a lack of knowledge that hampers society's possibility to deal with the problem of criminal networks. And that norms are dependent on structural conditions. Recommendations are that an evaluation is made of the effect of the law regarding changing the norms of silence.