BROTTSPREVENTION I EUROPA En kritisk komparativ diskursanalys av brottsprevention riktat mot ungdomsbrottslighet i England och Sverige
BrottspreventionPolicydokumentUngdomsbrottslighetCarol BacchiWPR. Crime preventionPolicyJuvenile delinquencyCarol BacchiWPR.
This thesis investigates how crime prevention is represented with the aim of preventing and
reducing youth crime in two crime prevention strategies for Croydon in England and Stockholm
in Sweden for the period 2022-2026. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to increased
knowledge and deeper understanding about how crime prevention is represented by prevailing
discourse in policy documents against juvenile delinquency in Europe by conducting a
comparative analysis. The study was conducted based on Carol Bacchi?s theory ?What?s the
problem represented to be?. Three adapted questions from the WPR approach were translated
to critically discourse-analytically examine two policy-oriented strategies against youth crime
on local level in Croydon and Stockholm. The comparative analysis was guided by the
responses that could be identified based on the WPR-adapted questions, analyzing similarities
and differences. Several conclusions could be drawn from the analysis. The strategies represent
crime prevention as individualized. Consequently, there is an interpretation and discourse to
unravel regarding the notion that young individuals and the type of criminality the young person
is at risk of engaging in are fundamentally influenced at the individual level without altering a
societal structure. This also gives rise to questions about power dynamics and subordination
due to aspects left unproblematic in the strategies.