Attityder mot fångar hos kriminalvårdare och kriminologistuderande

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in attitudes towards prisoners between different occupations, political leanings and genders. To measure attitudes the scale Attitudes towards prisoners, ATP, was firstly translated into Swedish and later distributed as a part of a survey. This study is based on a sample of 144 respondents consisting of prison officers, students of criminology and respondents with experience from both of the fields. Both parametric and non-parametric tests were used to answer the stated purpose of the study. The results show that women exhibited a significantly more positive attitude compared to men, participants leaning left politically exhibited significantly more positive attitudes compared to both neutral- and right leaning participants. Respondents with experience from both the study of criminology and work as prison-officers exhibited the most positive attitudes towards prisoners with a significantly more positive attitude compared to the group of prison-officers.