Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisation... more Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisationer, med sina manga motestillfallen, kunna bidra till folkhalsan. Denna systematiska litteraturoversikt av internationell forskning visar att ungdomsorganisationer kan bidra till forbattrad halsa for deltagarna om de lyckas balansera stod, kontroll och delaktighet pa ett bra satt. De vuxna ledarna har en viktig roll i denna process. Men risken ar att selektionsprocesser gor att de med storst behov tenderar att hamna utanfor, och att battre halsa bland deltagarna darfor till stor del beror pa att de med samre halsa valjer bort foreningsdeltagande. Foreningar ar exklusiva i olika hog grad och det ar darfor missledande att ha generella forvantningar pa att deltagande i civilsamhallet ska kunna forbattra folkhalsan.
Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisation... more Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisationer, med sina manga motestillfallen, kunna bidra till folkhalsan. Denna systematiska litteraturoversi ...
Football is one of the most popular organized leisure activities, and sports clubs organize many ... more Football is one of the most popular organized leisure activities, and sports clubs organize many volunteers. But participation is stratified, volunteering among parents is class based and especiall...
A critical, integrative review in the SocINDEX database was conducted to screen empirically groun... more A critical, integrative review in the SocINDEX database was conducted to screen empirically grounded research on civil society and health among youth. Our initial search string resulted in 477 hits, and our final selection was 58 articles. We found both promotive and excluding processes emanating from civil society. The engaged participants seem to empower themselves and live healthier lives, but simultaneously, they tend to exclude those with poorer health and status. Civil society does not seem to have the ability to resolve the existing stratifications, and there are risks of reinforcing the existing inequalities. Partly due to insufficient theoretical detail, there was also significant room for circular reasoning since the operationalisations of participation in civil society, social capital and health often overlapped. Of the three mechanisms proposed by Robert Putnam as links between networks and health, social control seems to have the best support in the reviewed empirical studies.
ABSTRACT This article examines a model for facilitating youth participation in local politics in ... more ABSTRACT This article examines a model for facilitating youth participation in local politics in Sweden. The Swedish youth councils are the responsibility of local authorities and they are designed to encourage political and civic interests among young people. These councils administrated by local bureaucracies are analyzed using institutional logics theory to determine the intentions, organization and outcomes of youth participation. The conclusions show that the institutional logic of the local public administration tends to dominate over the democratic logic of political participation for the young. The findings are based on mainly qualitative data from a two-year research project in Sweden.
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
ABSTRACT Since the 1980s in Sweden, children’s violent actions in schools have been reported to t... more ABSTRACT Since the 1980s in Sweden, children’s violent actions in schools have been reported to the police as criminal offences more frequently than before. This increasing trend is analysed against the background of a general increased cultural sensitivity to violence and slowly developing social changes that affect the propensity to report every form of violent incident to the police. This project analyses 1,239 police reports of assault, unlawful threat, molestation and insulting behaviour committed in schools by 7- to 14-year olds in ten municipalities in the Stockholm area. The time period studied is from 2000 to 2010. Regression analysis shows systematic differences among schools in different areas and social contexts. Average merit ratings, which are a measure of the educational quality of schools, explain most of the variance and correlate negatively with reported incidents. There are also significant differences among municipalities and school forms in terms of police reports. So-called resource schools, which are designed to serve children with special needs, report extremely high numbers of incidents per child. Reporting seems to have been routinised in many schools, including resource schools. Our results can be interpreted as suggesting that increased cultural sensitivity generates a bias against children in less affluent contexts.
ABSTRACT This longitudinal study shows that scouts have higher incomes than others 14 years after... more ABSTRACT This longitudinal study shows that scouts have higher incomes than others 14 years after their participation when controlling for social background, sex, and individual cognitive tests. But scouting has no significant effects on future criminality. Social exclusion and criminal behaviour are so marginal that they require more specific types of explanations. The results can be interpreted as signs that taking part in scouts significantly contributes as a step in the social pathway to the upper classes of society. By supporting scouting, the welfare state seems not to prevent problem behaviour but runs the risk of contributing to social stratification.
Ungdomar, civilsamhalle och stat : en undersokning om historiska relationer och en studie av samt... more Ungdomar, civilsamhalle och stat : en undersokning om historiska relationer och en studie av samtida teorier om framjande ungdomsarbete
Unga vuxna utanfor bade skola och arbetsliv : nya etableringsmonster eller borjan till social uts... more Unga vuxna utanfor bade skola och arbetsliv : nya etableringsmonster eller borjan till social utslagning?
Frågan var formulerad på följande vis till ordförandena "Har konsulenter varit till stöd för kret... more Frågan var formulerad på följande vis till ordförandena "Har konsulenter varit till stöd för kretsen att utveckla verksamheten inom följande?"
Polisen och narkotikaproblemet : fran nationella aktioner mot narkotikaprofitorer till lokala ins... more Polisen och narkotikaproblemet : fran nationella aktioner mot narkotikaprofitorer till lokala insatser for att stora missbruket
Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisation... more Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisationer, med sina manga motestillfallen, kunna bidra till folkhalsan. Denna systematiska litteraturoversikt av internationell forskning visar att ungdomsorganisationer kan bidra till forbattrad halsa for deltagarna om de lyckas balansera stod, kontroll och delaktighet pa ett bra satt. De vuxna ledarna har en viktig roll i denna process. Men risken ar att selektionsprocesser gor att de med storst behov tenderar att hamna utanfor, och att battre halsa bland deltagarna darfor till stor del beror pa att de med samre halsa valjer bort foreningsdeltagande. Foreningar ar exklusiva i olika hog grad och det ar darfor missledande att ha generella forvantningar pa att deltagande i civilsamhallet ska kunna forbattra folkhalsan.
Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisation... more Eftersom sociala relationer ar viktiga for att framja halsa sa borde civilsamhallets organisationer, med sina manga motestillfallen, kunna bidra till folkhalsan. Denna systematiska litteraturoversi ...
Football is one of the most popular organized leisure activities, and sports clubs organize many ... more Football is one of the most popular organized leisure activities, and sports clubs organize many volunteers. But participation is stratified, volunteering among parents is class based and especiall...
A critical, integrative review in the SocINDEX database was conducted to screen empirically groun... more A critical, integrative review in the SocINDEX database was conducted to screen empirically grounded research on civil society and health among youth. Our initial search string resulted in 477 hits, and our final selection was 58 articles. We found both promotive and excluding processes emanating from civil society. The engaged participants seem to empower themselves and live healthier lives, but simultaneously, they tend to exclude those with poorer health and status. Civil society does not seem to have the ability to resolve the existing stratifications, and there are risks of reinforcing the existing inequalities. Partly due to insufficient theoretical detail, there was also significant room for circular reasoning since the operationalisations of participation in civil society, social capital and health often overlapped. Of the three mechanisms proposed by Robert Putnam as links between networks and health, social control seems to have the best support in the reviewed empirical studies.
ABSTRACT This article examines a model for facilitating youth participation in local politics in ... more ABSTRACT This article examines a model for facilitating youth participation in local politics in Sweden. The Swedish youth councils are the responsibility of local authorities and they are designed to encourage political and civic interests among young people. These councils administrated by local bureaucracies are analyzed using institutional logics theory to determine the intentions, organization and outcomes of youth participation. The conclusions show that the institutional logic of the local public administration tends to dominate over the democratic logic of political participation for the young. The findings are based on mainly qualitative data from a two-year research project in Sweden.
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
ABSTRACT Since the 1980s in Sweden, children’s violent actions in schools have been reported to t... more ABSTRACT Since the 1980s in Sweden, children’s violent actions in schools have been reported to the police as criminal offences more frequently than before. This increasing trend is analysed against the background of a general increased cultural sensitivity to violence and slowly developing social changes that affect the propensity to report every form of violent incident to the police. This project analyses 1,239 police reports of assault, unlawful threat, molestation and insulting behaviour committed in schools by 7- to 14-year olds in ten municipalities in the Stockholm area. The time period studied is from 2000 to 2010. Regression analysis shows systematic differences among schools in different areas and social contexts. Average merit ratings, which are a measure of the educational quality of schools, explain most of the variance and correlate negatively with reported incidents. There are also significant differences among municipalities and school forms in terms of police reports. So-called resource schools, which are designed to serve children with special needs, report extremely high numbers of incidents per child. Reporting seems to have been routinised in many schools, including resource schools. Our results can be interpreted as suggesting that increased cultural sensitivity generates a bias against children in less affluent contexts.
ABSTRACT This longitudinal study shows that scouts have higher incomes than others 14 years after... more ABSTRACT This longitudinal study shows that scouts have higher incomes than others 14 years after their participation when controlling for social background, sex, and individual cognitive tests. But scouting has no significant effects on future criminality. Social exclusion and criminal behaviour are so marginal that they require more specific types of explanations. The results can be interpreted as signs that taking part in scouts significantly contributes as a step in the social pathway to the upper classes of society. By supporting scouting, the welfare state seems not to prevent problem behaviour but runs the risk of contributing to social stratification.
Ungdomar, civilsamhalle och stat : en undersokning om historiska relationer och en studie av samt... more Ungdomar, civilsamhalle och stat : en undersokning om historiska relationer och en studie av samtida teorier om framjande ungdomsarbete
Unga vuxna utanfor bade skola och arbetsliv : nya etableringsmonster eller borjan till social uts... more Unga vuxna utanfor bade skola och arbetsliv : nya etableringsmonster eller borjan till social utslagning?
Frågan var formulerad på följande vis till ordförandena "Har konsulenter varit till stöd för kret... more Frågan var formulerad på följande vis till ordförandena "Har konsulenter varit till stöd för kretsen att utveckla verksamheten inom följande?"
Polisen och narkotikaproblemet : fran nationella aktioner mot narkotikaprofitorer till lokala ins... more Polisen och narkotikaproblemet : fran nationella aktioner mot narkotikaprofitorer till lokala insatser for att stora missbruket
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