Den upplevda brottsligheten - En kvantitativ studie om socionomstudenters inställning, utsatthet och oro för brott.

Sammanfattning: The aim was to research the social work students attitude towards crime, their worry of being subject to crime and their knowledge of crimes committed amongst their friends. The study was made to highlight the differences based on gender and the students location of study. Information was gathered through a quantitative method where surveys were answered by students at Lund university in Lund and in Helsingborg. The result indicated that most of the social work students had a negative outlook towards committing crime and that women had a significantly less positive outlook on crime compared to men. A majority of the men who answered the survey stated that they knew someone who, in the last 12 months, had committed a crime. In contrary over 50 percent of the women stated that they did not know someone who had committed a crime in the last 12 months. More than half of the respondents stated that they knew someone who had used drugs in the last 12 months. Most stated that they had not been subject to crime, but 39 percent of the women stated that they had been victims of sexual harassment once or more during the last 12 months. According to the answers of the survey sexual harassment was more common amongst the students in Lund compared to the students in Helsingborg. More than 90 percent of the respondents stated that they were worried about crime in the society. According to the survey women experience higher levels of fear than men. Women were also more likely to change their everyday behaviour as a result of concern towards being victims of crimes.