Ungdomars upplevelser av ungdomsjänst och dess meningsfullhet

Sammanfattning: Abstract Title: Ungdomars upplevelser av ungdomstjänst och dess meningsfullhet Author: Maddis Hashemzadeh Supervisor: Roberto Scaramuzzino The purpose with this essay has been to describe and understand what experiences young people have of community service and if they feel that the community service has been meaningful for their future mindset of commit a crime. Community service for youth people entered into force 2007 and can be imposed to youths between the ages 15-21 year. Youth community service consists of two parts: one part that involves the youth people in the labor market, unpaid, and you can be sentenced to 20-150 hours of youth community service. The purpose of the other part of the community service is to talk about the crime and the youths can also go to classes about drugs and alcohol. Furthermore the images of the youth offenders had an impact on the argumentation, as well as an ambition to keep youths outside of the correctional treatment system. Key words: Youth community service, crime, youth offenders