Om tillit till polisen – En idéanalys av offentlig debatt under några tidsperioder med låg grad tillit till institutionen

Sammanfattning: This essay is about trust in the police organization at two time periods, the mid - and late 1990s and 2010s. In these periods the national polls pointed at a weaker experienced trust in the police compared to other time periods. Trust in the national institutions is of importance to the democratic system. National polls are however very seldom complemented by studies based on qualitative methods aiming at an understanding of what kind of reasoning and thoughts that can underlie the quantitative results. The aim of this thesis is to analyze articles from different newspapers to identify ideas that can underlie the statistical results by possibly influence the readers' experience of trust. Since few qualitative studies within this field have been made this study is carried out as an exploratory and empirical study while the theoretical framework is limited to the concepts of idea and trust. The results show that there is reason to continue the development of qualitative methods to gain a deeper understanding of the poll results and of possible uncertainties that can be embedded in them. For instance this study shows that there can be uncertainties regarding the boundaries between the police and the judicial system.