Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

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Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

Alstam, Kristina (författare): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work,University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Forkby, Torbjörn, Professor, 1965- (författare): Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA),Barn, unga och familj

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2022-04-29
2022
Engelska.
Ingår i: Societies. - : MDPI AG. - 2075-4698. ; 12:3

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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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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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collaborative crime prevention
organizational logics
intervention
violence
particularly vulnerable areas
hot-spots
safety
crime
coproduction
knowledge
Sociology
collaborative crime prevention; organizational logics; intervention; violence; particularly vulnerable areas
Socialt arbete

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