How do the Police prevention methods work against juvenile delinquency? The purpose of this study is to see how the Police work to prevent juvenile delinquency in two municipalities in Stockholm, Södertälje and Sundbyberg. Additionally, the purpose of this study is also to find out if there are any similarities or differences between the Police methods the Police use in these two municipalities. We have used qualitative method in which we have interviewed the Police and young people from the communities. We interviewed young people to see their attitudes to the Police and the area to find their perception of Police work in the fields as well as the Police forces attitude toward the young people.

This thesis investigates and emphasises on the way students at Växjö Police academy describe their socialization into their profession as Police officers and the creation of profession identity. The scientist?s main questions are: In what way do the students at Växjö Police academy describe their socialization process into the Police profession? What role does the organisation play in the socialization process of the Police students? How do the students develop their Police identity? Which qualities are encouraged? The study is based on qualitative interviews with nine Police students, performed in groups of three. Group theory, role theory, and organization theory are applied to the material to provide an understanding through which it is possible to understand the process of socialization. The study shows that there seems to be patterns in the description of a professional identity.

The purpose of this study was to understand whether there is a difference in how the Swedish Police work with Facebook in two municipalities with different criminal records. The methods used were qualitative interviews with the ones responsible for the Facebook-sites and quantitative content analysis of different Facebook-posts, both from members of the Facebook-site and from the Police themselves.Among the theories used in this study were the ?four-step relations process? by Cutlip, Allen and Broom, theory around public relations and theory around the public sphere by Habermas.The results showed that there is a difference in how the Police uses Facebook between the municipalities and one of the conclusions is that this is mainly because of the ways that the Police choose to work with Facebook rather than the difference in criminal records. Another conclusion is that the Police get positive feedback from the members on their Facebook-site, and that how much the Police uses Facebook as a tool depends a lot on how much resources they have to spend since the ones writing on Facebook are Policemen and Policewomen, and that the Police do not have someone who works with the Facebook-site as a primary task.Keywords: Facebook, Police, social media, qualitative interviews, quantitative content analysis, authority, public relations..

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine the work situation and career opportunities among women Police. We use a gender perspective as a guideline during the examination. Despite words of being, and work to create, gender neutral organization, women Police is greatly underrepresented. The interviewed women gave a picture of an organization in which they had to work harder than their male colleagues to advance. The biggest problem seems to lie in the hierarchy dominated by male Police officers and the fact that women, during pregnancy, are missing out on valuable time at work, and thus, also essential experiences for future career advancement.

How do the Swedish Police get represented in news media and how does that representation differentiate from other media channels where the Police have full control over what is said? Through a discourse analysis of news texts and extracts from the Police own webpage and Facebook page, we claim that the discourse in newspapers and the discourse on the webpage and Facebook page is pretty much the same, only packaged differently..

Prostitution is a large and multifaceted subject. In this study, the purpose is to gain an insight into how the Police officers work and act when they get in contact with young prostitutes. The study contains answers and opinions from five Police officers which were conducted through semi-structured interviews in this qualitative study. The results were analysed based on a social constructive perspective and Goffman?s stigma theory.

The purpose of this essay, ?Now they are chasing paper-less - A qualitative discourse analysis of mass medias depiction of the Reva-project and the work of the Police?, is to analyze how mass media portrays the Reva-project and Polices work with the project. The basis for the essay will be eight selected newspapers. The Reva-project implies collaboration between the Police, the Swedish Migration board and the Swedish Prison and Probation Service within the border Police. The aim of the project is to enhance the efficiency and the execution of the border Police work, in accordance with the government?s target.

In a work environment where employees can be thrown into all sorts of situations and where anything can happen, it requires that they have good knowledge about what they do and constantly strive to improve their skills. The purpose of this paper is to study how professional Police officers perceive learning in their work. Essay authors would like to find out how the Police officers experience their formal learning, informal learning and Police education. This is by research what the Police officers learn through various forms of education and what they learn by practicing their profession. Previous research dealing with the subject and relevant theories are discussed and processed.

AbstractThe purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse Europol. The research questions are:- How would increased powers for Europol impact on the cooperation between Europol and Police authorities in EU-member states?- Which one of the two theories transactionalism and neofunctionalism can best create an understanding of Europol and its integration with the Police of the member states?In so doing the study applies a qualitative method.Europol is the European Police Office and it was established through the Maastricht treaty in 1992 with the purpose of making the integration between Police of the EU member states more efficient. In order for Europol to make integration between the Police of member states more efficient it can be suggested that it needs for Europol to develop into having executive powers.One conclusion of this study is that Europol is an important tool for integration in the EU but there are at least three issues that are influencing the level of effectiveness in the integration work between the Police of the member states; possible mistrust, that Europol has no executive powers and that it is voluntary for member states to participate in assisting Europol with information. Another conclusion is that Europol can be understood through an integration perspective when transactionalism and neofunctionalism are complementing each other..

The purpose of the essay is to see if the pupils of Ross Tensta Gymnasium feel it is necessary to have an existing cooperation between the Police and Ross Tensta Gymnasium. I would like to know how the cooperation works between Ross Tensta Gymnasium and the Police and also if the cooperation is visible for the pupils. Furthermore I would like to know if it is necessary to have cooperation between schools and the Police even though there are not any obligations to have any.The methodology I have been using is a qualitative analysis. The entire essay is based on interviews which I have recorded and later transcript it into writing. The theories which I have been using are Wacquant?s use of territorial stigma and also the concept of us and the others in which Stuart Hall explains.

The aim of this study was to create an understanding of how a group of community policing officers engagement are shaped. Previous research argues that there is a Police culture which conveys cynicism to the individual Police. The research also says that the Police adopt a pessimistic view of society, they are isolated and at odds with the rest of society. Furthermore, research has also shown how a narrative can exist that explains the Police way of doing things. My contribution to the field is to explore how a narrative can be located, which precedes and shapes the Police engagement.

The study consist of an investigation regarding the implementation of reassurance policing in Sweden and include a survey conducted among some of the local Police offices in Stockholm County. The aim of the study is to investigate how the Police officers working in the local Polices offices experience the implementation of the local Police offices and if the implementation of local the Polices offices matches the Police authority´s purpose with the project. The study uses the theoretical framework from political scientist Michael Lipsky calledStreet-level bureaucracy - Dilemmas of the individual in Public services which discuss the role of street-level bureaucrats and their influence in the implementation. Included in the study is also two different perspectives on governing in public sector called top-down perspective and bottom-up perspective. The findings of this paper shows that the Police officers are in general positive towards the implementation and that there´s a duality among the Police officers regarding the proximity to the citizens..

The aim of the thesis is to illustrate how a group of community policing officers makes themselves relevant to their community, this in relation to wider organizational circumstances and exterior structures of society. Earlier research on the subject tells us that community policing can be proactive and crime preventing in such a way that the confidence and trust in the Police is increased. Research is also making clear that proactive Police work is hard to measure and evaluate, which is why my contribution to the field is to explore how this effects the way the Police officers in Bergsjön, Gothenburg is making themselves relevant and the way that they see themselves as community policing officers. The relationship Police ? community will be regarded as how someone treats their audience, attentive to its feedback, in order to get ones message out, in this case confidence and trust in the Police, under influence of the audit society.To achieve the aim of the thesis, participating observation was chosen, to experience the Police officers everyday work.

This essay is called ?The hunt for anarchists- a study about the Police in Stockholm's collection of bandit portrait during the turn of the century 1900? and it is about the criminal category ?Anarchists? who the Police in Stockholm used at the turn of the century 1900.  In the archive from the Police in Stockholm during the essays time perspective, 1899-1909,  there are about one hundred photographs in the category ?Anarchists?, about half of these pictures have no information besides the names of the people, but the other half, 48 persons, have some information about age, work title and where the person come from. The information showed that the people in the pictures where not from Sweden, and after controlling them in all different kinds of archives I found only ten of them have left any traces in Stockholm. What I realized then was that the people on the pictures are anarchists from different countries in Europe, mostly from Italy, and that the Police in Stockholm had these pictures because different Police stations around Europe had sent them to the Police in Stockholm. The Police in Stockholm where on the lookout for fugitive anarchists.The literature about the anarchist movement in Italy during this time describe the hard situation for Italian anarchists.

Violence is put in a specific context when the Police are the perpetrator of violence rendering violence possibly legitimate through sovereignty. The possibility of legitimization of Police violence raises important questions of how such violence is legitimized and how resistance is conceived of and defined. I have interviewed seven people in Sweden from different backgrounds, all of whom share the experience of having been subjugated to Police violence, including threats, harassments and physical violence.This paper analyzes the performativity of Police violence through the relations between Police violence, power, sovereignty, subjectstatus and resistance, in order to understand how Police violence is being legitimized and to understand its consequenses with respect to those subjugated to it. I?ve also analyzed if this violence is being politicized and, in that case, how politicization is made possible.