Den svenska Kriminalvården och kriminalpolitiken har genom åren genomgått övergripande förändringar som efterhand inneburit hårdare straff och större fokus på säkerheten. Samtidigt som Kriminalvården har ansvar för verkställande av straff genom frihetsberövande har man även ett ansvar för behandling under och återanpassning efter frihetsberövandet. Kriminalvårdens verksamhet regleras av en lång raThe Swedish Prison and criminal policy over the years has undergone comprehensive changes that eventually led to tougher penalties and greater focus on safety. While the correctional authority is responsible for the execution of punishment by deprivation of liberty, it has also a responsibility for treatment during and reintegration after custody. The activity of the correctional authority is gove

Recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) is a way of constructing roads with less climate impact. However, the RAP often contain moisture which is known to be disadvantageous for the final product and will at the same time increase the production cost. A manufacturing method that also aims have less impact on the environment is NCC Green Asphalt. The method allows a lower manufacturing temperature than a c

The purpose of this study was to answer the question of what people with anorexia nervosa describe have helped them out of their illness. After reading five biographies about five girls struggling with the disease, I made a text analysis which concluded in four factors that the girls describe have helped them recover from anorexia nervosa. The four factors are awareness of the seriousness of the d

The purpose with this study was to understand what conceptions about sex and sexuality are conveyed in sexual health education in schools in Grenada as well as analyze how teachers and guidance counselors relate to those conceptions. Our focus was to understand how sex and sexuality is conducted and portrayed in the educational material and what the respondents believe is important when teaching t

The aim of this study was to examine how parenthood are constructed in the Swedish insurance system’s (Försäkringskassan) guidelines of support to families with child with disability. Also, the purpose was to understand the welfare state’s governing of the family. In order to achieve this goal, a discourse theory was used both as a theory and a method to analyze four of Försäkringskassan’s guideli

Majoriteten av jordens befolkning kommer idag i kontakt med plastbaserade Bisfenol A (BPA) förpackningsmaterial dagligen på grund av dess stora användningsområde. Detta leder till stor exponering av BPA då ämnet läcker ut ur materialet under användningen, vilket har risk att påverkar människor hälsa. Detta då det är hormonstörande, att det påverkar reproduktionen och hormonnivåer. Många sjukdomar Bisphenol A is one of the main chemicals used when producing plastic, polycarbonate plastic and epoxy plastic. These plastics are used to produce a variety of products and are often used in materials in contact with food. Bisphenol A leaks out of these materials and enters the body through different pathways, the most common being oral ingestion and absorption through the gastrointestinal tract. B

The aim of this study was to understand the experiences that social workers in the social services child protection unit has regarding their working conditions and how they reflect about their workload, staff turnovers, wellbeing in regards to the role of a social worker. Our qualitative study was based on seven interviews with social workers who worked in a middle-sized municipality in Skåne. Th

Author: Linnea Olsson och Sandra Brandt Title: Föräldrainvolvering vid samtal med minderåriga Supervisor: Johan Cronehed Assessor: Anna Tegunimataka The aim of this study was to examine counselors approach to parental involvement in dialouge with adolescents in the age 13-17 years old. The main questions in this study was 1) what is counselors view on parental involvement? 2) what is the counselo

This study examines the phenomena of “social clauses” that aim to uphold labour standards within the international trade regime and discusses examples of their implementation. “Social clauses”, despite their contentious past within the World Trade Organisation and preceding frameworks, can be found in a number of Free Trade Agreements and Generalised Systems of Preferences. The study initially set

The purpose with this study was to investigate how social secretaries in elderly care receive to dementia patients over the age of 65 in the care administration, focusing on the social secretaries discretion and the rights of the patients with dementia. The population consisted of four social secretaries in elderly care, granting assistance to dementia patients over the age of 65, and one nursing

Traditional financial theory, assuming rationality and stock market prices justified by fundamentals, has failed to explain the occurrence of several large stock market crises. Theories in behavioral finance suggest stock market overvaluation, eventually leading to stock market crises, partly occur due to noise trading. In this thesis, noise is captured through investor sentiment with the purpose

Information om information kring klimatanpassning Klimatet förändras, och denna förändring är med största sannolikhet orsakad av människan. Detta konstateras av FNs klimatpanel i deras senaste rapport. Det finns idag information om vilka utmaningar vi står inför och jag har i min studie tittat på hur denna information används i kommuners arbete med klimatanpassning. Det finns en liknelse som föThis study has looked at eight municipalities in Scania and how they use climate related information in their work with climate adaptation, and what information they would like to have access to in order to take the next step. The municipalities were chosen on the basis of population and are no extreme cases; rather they are examples of an average Swedish municipality. How the usage of information

Title The decision-making process and willingness to pay for green dwelling Seminar date 2015-05-26 Course FEKN90 Master Thesis in Business Administration (Level D), 30 ECTS Authors Emil Rydén and Robert Waszkiewicz Supervisor Matts Kärreman Key words Consumer behavior, willingness to pay, green dwelling, energy efficiency gap, sustainability, sustainable development Purpose The purpose of t

The aim of this study was to examine social workers comprehension of their role in the homelessness discourse. The used method was a qualitative method persisting of five semi-structured interviews with social workers working with homelessness within social services. Michael Lipskys (2010) theory of street-level bureaucracy was used as a theoretical base to answer the questions asked in the study.

Uppsatsen studerar hur män från Mellanöstern som är första generationens invandrare möter den svenska arbetsmarknaden och på vilket sätt den nya kapitalismen och entreprenörskap påverkar invandrarens förankring på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Syftet är att undersöka hur invandraren möter de krav som det flexibla arbetslivet i Sverige ställer. Vi ville också fånga invandrarens subjektiva upplevelse

This thesis has been performed in the ethylene oxide plant at Akzo Nobel in Stenungsund. Ethylene oxide is an important ethylene based intermediary compound. The primary use for ethylene oxide is in the manufacture of derivatives such as ethylene glycol, surfactants and ethanolamine’s. In the production of ethylene oxide, ethylene and oxygen reacts over a silver catalyst surface. Mainly two reactThere are high demands on companies today to survive when competition is high and that also applies to companies that manufacture ethylene oxide. The raw material in the production of ethylene oxide is ethylene and oxygen where ethylene is the largest cost. To facilitate the reaction a catalyst, which increases the reaction rate, is used. The catalyst has a major influence on the efficiency and ec

Denna uppsats undersöker svensk lösdrivarlagstiftning ur ett diskursteoretiskt perspektiv, med tonvikt på tiden från det sena 1800-talet fram till 1960-talet. Syftet är att visa i vilken kontext lösdriverilagstiftningen har kommit till, hur lagstiftningen har motiverats, och hur diskursen kring lösdrivaren förändrats över tid. Resultatet visar att lösdriveridiskursen långt in på 1900-talet fortf

Den här rapporten behandlar hur övertagande av huvudmannaskap för allmän plats i detaljplaner går till. I rapporten har det bland annat undersökts hur vanligt förekommande det är bland landets kommuner att arbeta med övertaganden. De bakomliggande skälen till varför kommunerna genomför övertaganden har också varit föremål för granskning, liksom enskilda väghållares utgångspunkter i frågan. ArbetetThis thesis deals with how the takeover of the mandatorship for the public space in detailed development plans works. Among other things the thesis examines how common it is among the Swedish municipalities to deal with takeovers. The underlying reasons as to why municipalities carry out takeovers have also been examined, as well as the road associations’ premises in the process. The thesis has be

Det har länge funnits en samhällsdebatt kring svenska för invandrare (sfi) och dess möjligheter att stödja de sfi-studerande så att de utvecklar rätt svenska för arbetslivet, där det krävs att man kan kommunicera både i och om arbetet och för mer sociala ändamål. Effektiviteten av praktik som medel för detta är omdebatterad. I denna studie undersöks därför den språkliga miljön runt två sfi-studera

The aim of this study was to examine family home social workers experience and conception of unplanned as well as planned disruptions in family foster care. We also wanted to investigate the main reasons of disruption identified by family home social workers, and how they are managed. Another aim was to investigate how family home social workers work with children, biological parents and foster pa