Straff eller behandling? En inblick i den slutna ungdomsvården

Sammanfattning: Abstract This assignment is an examinationpaper on behalf of School of social studies at the University of Lund. The essay is about penalty and treatment in the Swedish youth welfare. Present-day Swedish youth welfare has on behalf of the legal system to implement penalty to the adolescence but also give them treatment for the coming life. We think it can be a problem to use these to aspects in the same context and therefore we want to look closer at the combination. To get knowledge about the subject we have performed interviews with employees in the youth welfare in Sweden who works with adolescence who are convicted according to the Swedish law, LSU. We have analyzed the material from the interviews with help from several theories. The essay apply an insight to the work in the youth welfare, witch method of treatment they use and examples of methods that works on the adolescence. Through the interviews we apply a review of penalty and treatment and how this two aspects can be combinated. We problematize which factors that can be improved and the complicatedness to work with penalty and treatment. The result of the essay is that the employees thinks there are more problem with the follow-up care. They think the work with penalty and treatment function well, this however contradicts with the theorists view of the combination.