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- Alstam, Kristina, et al.
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Ett smörgåsbord av möjligheter : en värderande analys av Passus avhopparstöd för personer som lämnar gäng och kriminalitet
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gäng framställs inte sällan som ett hot mot samhällets ordning. Våldsamma uppgörelser mellan olika konstellationer har sedan åtminstone 20-hundratalets inledning återkommit i upphettade politiska diskussioner såväl som i medierna. Krav på mer kraftfulla åtgärder har varit gängse, ofta med starka repressiva inslag där polis och kriminalvård varit de centrala aktörerna. Denna rapport belyser gängtillvaron, och framförallt vägen ut från sådana från ett annat håll. Här får vi möta personer som fått nog av gänget och vill starta om med ett annat slags liv. Vi möter personer med låg tillit till samhällets förmåga att stödja dem i vägen ut, och undersöker vad det är i Passus avhopparverksamhet som skänker hopp om att ett annat liv är möjligt. Den väg de har att vandra är i många fall lång och det finns mycket som utmanar under resan, och som skulle kunna få dem att vända tillbaka. Genom att erbjuda ett flexibelt stöd som kopplar an till den enskilde när, på det sätt och i de avseenden som behövs exemplifierar Passus hur ett stödarbete skulle kunna se ut. Nämligen att erbjuda ett smörgåsbord fullt av möjligheter.Rapporten vänder sig till alla som professionellt, i sin utbildning eller på annat sätt har intresserade av arbete med gäng och att skapa alternativ till gängtillvaron. Den är skriven av Kristina Alstam, lektor i socialt arbete vid Göteborgs universitet, Torbjörn Forkby, professor i socialt arbete och Daniel Holm, adjunkt i socialt arbete, de två senare vid Linnéuniversitetet.
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- Alstam, Kristina, et al.
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Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Societies. - : MDPI AG. - 2075-4698. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, local municipalities, working in collaboration with the police, are assigned an important role in community-based crime prevention and the promotion of safer neighbourhoods/cities. The strategies adopted are supposed to be informed by the policies of national advisory bodies, which emphasize surveying the current situation, problem analyses, systematic planning of interventions and evaluation of efforts. This paper reports on a three-year research project that studied local crime prevention/safer community practices in four so-called 'particularly vulnerable areas' (PVAs) using meeting observations and stakeholder interviews. The analysis shows that when constructing intervention strategies, the actors involved had to navigate between different organizational logics and found it difficult to demarcate a suitable object for joint efforts. When they were able to find an object to be targeted, such as youth at risk of drug abuse or low-level criminality, they could rely on a collective mindset, but they struggled in situations where a joint effort was not possible, such as when dealing with the risk of aggravated violence or when the operations got close to more organized crime-both elements that form part of the definition of PVAs. This failure may partly be explained by competing logics dominated by idiosyncratic action in line with bureaucratic rules and routines. This finding raises questions about a putative but non-articulated limit to crime prevention and whether a predetermined approach aligns with the prescribed sequence of survey, analysis, intervention planning and evaluation when faced with more brutish violence.
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- Alstam, Kristina, et al.
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Possible selves. Gang passages, projective imaginations, and self-transformations
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Routledge. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 14:1, s. 136-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Belonging to a criminal gang often strongly influences members’ identities, particularly their self-perceptions and social roles. Entering or leaving a gang may challenge members’ understandings of the meaning and structure of their lives and threaten their sense of control. The aim of this study was to explore how members narrate these transitions and whether such stages may be seen as liminal passages. This article draws in particular on the theory of possible selves, which suggests that people change through experiencing their present selves as incomplete versions of their anticipated selves. We analysed data from two qualitative research projects on gang exits using content analysis from interviews with clients and employees in one Swedish exit programme and clients at correctional facilities or probation services. In addition, data consists of interviews with employees from these. The analysis suggests that while gang members narrate entry as a continuation towards understanding themselves and their potential place in the world, leaving the gang implies entry into a liminal terrain with fewer role models and possible projective imaginings of their future selves. Such liminal passages are analytically linked to a need for role models and experienced guides to manifest a way forward and support defectors in the process of leaving. Gang leavers need ‘ceremonial masters’, in this case professionals with experience of exiting processes, to support them in imagining and creating new lives and new selves outside of the gang.
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- Alstam, Kristina, et al.
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Required alienation? : The monitored self in a health promotion programme in secondary schools of three Swedish municipalities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Pedagogy, Culture & Society. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1468-1366 .- 1747-5104. ; 28:3, s. 333-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Promotion is an institutionally mediated effort to bolster or redirect a person’s health, strength, and other assets to build resilience. We analyse a Swedish version of the Life in Action promotion programme used in secondary schools in three municipalities. Focusing on types of alienation as framed in the programme, we argue that Life in Action’s treatment of the psyche as an object in need of conscious monitoring, nurturing, and enhancement of qualities such as positive attitude and self-discipline signals the teenage participants’ required alienation. Concluding the article, we discuss how this type of alienation may already be present in participating students, and also how it may be necessary for young people about to enter work-life in the era of late capitalism.
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- Alstram, Kristina, et al.
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Lektion i drömstyrning : utvärdering av skolprogrammet Star for Life
- 2018. - 1
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Star for Life är ett främjandeprogram avsett för högstadiet som syftar till att hjälpa ungdomar att sätta upp mål för sig själva och som bland annat innehåller färdighetsträning i motivation, studieteknik och uthållighet. Eleverna följer programmet från det att de börjar i årskurs sju, tills de går ut årskurs nio. Passen leds av lärare men bygger i stor utsträckning på elevernas interaktion. Programmets konkreta övningar inriktas mot att hjälpa till med konkreta tekniker och metoder med vilkas hjälp man kan tillvara den egna mentala kraften. Programmet avser också att stödja eleverna till reflektion över ambitioner och/eller uppsatta mål – är de rimliga, hur kan man hålla motivationen levande för sig själv och vad gör man om man inte omedelbart lyckas? Har då de deltagande eleverna nytta av den svenska versionen av programmet och i så fall, hur märker man det? Vilken slags nytta är det fråga om? Vad är det för slags problem som programmet tänks lösa och med hjälp av vilka tekniker? Hur iscensätts programmet i praktiken och vad tycker eleverna om det? Dessa frågor har legat till grund för den utvärdering som Institutionen för socialt arbete vid Göteborgs universitet gjort mellan åren 2014 och 2017. Utvärderingen startade våren 2014 och avslutades hösten 2017 och den inbegriper fyra interventionsskolor (skolor som använder sig av programmet) samt två kontrollskolor i kommunerna Ale, Partille och Söderköping. Utvärderingen har följande tre fokusområden: effekter av programmet, innehåll och arbetsmetoder inom programmet samt i viss utsträckning implementering.
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- Anderberg, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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A pendulum swing in child welfare policy : the case of implementing GIRFEC in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 12:4, s. 578-591
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is among those countries traditionally ranked highly in international comparisons of children’s well-being and conditions for development. However, in recent years a development towards greater inequality in health has occurred. The general welfare model’s capacity to safeguard both the universal provisions for the general population’s standard of living and targeted support for those in need has also been doubted. System-related deficiencies such as collaborative breakdown, inadequate effectiveness and lack of clarity concerning how to uphold the best interests of the child are cited as examples, and several calls for policy reformations have been raised. The Scottish model for supporting child well-being, Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) has garnered keen interest in Sweden and is an example of how ideas for policy reformation flow both between and within countries, and thereby undergo more or less radical transformations. This article analyses the first-phase implementation of GIRFEC in a Swedish county. It emerges that although there is a great deal of enthusiasm for the original model, the intention is to implement an adapted version. What similarities and differences would be realized is not clarified from the start, but is left for the implementation process. The positive reception is understood as arising from a perceived familiarity of the model, based on current practice and discourse. GIRFEC can therefore be regarded as part of a pendulum swing in which ideas are borrowed and lent between countries and contexts.
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- Anderberg, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Planer för samverkan kring barn och unga i Skottland och Sverige : ett jämförande perspektiv
- 2021
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Ingår i: Paedagogisk Psykologisk Tidskrift. - : Dansk Psykologogisk Forlag A/S. - 1903-0002. ; :2, s. 39-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of early and coordinated efforts to promote children’s and young people’s wellbeing and offer complementary support to those in difficult life situations is a highly prioritized goal of the Swedish policy and reflected also in other Nordic countries. The Scottish model Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) has been used as an exemplary way to proceed, and a number of development processes has started to implement local versions inspired from the model. The article departs from an on-going evaluation of one of these in the Kronoberg Region bringing eight municipalities and the regional health authority together in the development of a common framework and joint assessment and coordination tools. Reforms in the public sector have to consider the soil in which a new model is supposed to grow, and even well-thought models could experience hindrances if challenging pre-existing routines, traditions and overall practices. An example of this is the coordinating tool and practice associated to the GIRFEC child’s plan in relation to the coordinated individual plans (SIP) already offered to accomplish the intentions using similar approach. The article will compare these plans by reviewing previous literature about their respective implementation and function. The results indicate deviations; while the children's plans (in Scotland) having contributed to interprofessional collaboration, the SIP has functioned as a device for sorting out responsibilities between involved authorities. Also, children's and parents' participation in planning seems to be greater in Scotland. The comparison points out several structural obstacles needed to be considered in further implementation of coordinated children’s plans.
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- Anderberg, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Reinventing the wheel? : Children’s wellbeing in the journey along the GIRFEC stream
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; , s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Wellbeing Wheel is a tool used for early detection, assessment, and planning around children. This study examines how this artefact has been translated from Scotland to Sweden and what that process involved in relation to transformation from the original ideas when travelling from one specific context to another. The analysis was based on three graphic wheels and their supporting documentation, interviews, and field notes. The results reveal great similarity in the overall ‘spirit’ of the work performed to introduce the Wellbeing Wheel to the Swedish context, but on several points significant differences can also be noted, with some content being removed or relocated, and new content being added. These changes were conscious and intentional in some instances, while others arose spontaneously and ad hoc during the development processes.
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- Andersson, Björn, et al.
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PARTIspace. WP2 – National Contexts Comparative Report UNIBO, Italy UGOT, Sweden
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The PARTISPACE study aims at undertaking a comparative analysis of youth participation or their involvement and engagement in decisions 'which concern them and, in general, the life of their communities' (European Commission, 2001a: 8). The central research question of the project is how and where 15- and 30 year-old young people do participate differently across social milieus and youth cultural scenes and across eight European cities (framed by different national welfare, education and youth policies). What styles of participation do they prefer, develop and apply and in what spaces does participation take place? Answers to these questions could improve the understanding of the complexities and contradictions of youth participation – on the side of policy makers as well as on the side of young people – and thereby help empowering young people in participating in society, renovating also concepts, definitions and discourses on what (youth) participation is, could and should be. The eight European cities in which we conduct the study are Bologna (IT), Eskisehir (TK), Frankfurt (DE), Gothenburg (SE), Manchester (UK), Plovdiv (BG), Rennes (FR) and Zurich (CH). They do not represent but secure contrasting contexts of young people’s growing up as well as differing orientations towards Europe. Although embedded in different national and local contexts, these eight cities are comparable in terms of dimension and relevance in the respective country. This ensures a sufficient provision and diversity of participatory settings without being too close to representative national government institutions and umbrella structures.
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- Andersson, Björn, 1952, et al.
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WP2.PARTIspace. National Contexts. Comparative Report
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Describes and compares youth policies, social conditions for youth and frameworks for youth participations in eight European cities. The report is a part of the Horizon 2020 project PARTIspace.
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