Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Law School, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [1]-[47]).

Since 2009 the Swedish Sport Confederation has included a child rights perspective in their policy guidelines for child sport in Sweden. These guidelines states that all children shall be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation. Despite this, studies show not only that emotional abuse and maltreatment occurs in children´s sport but that it is has a great effect on children. The aim of this study was to analyze the experiences and effects of emotional abuse and maltreatment among children athletes. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with nine children, 13-18 years old, from both team- and individual sports. The result shows that emotional abuse and maltreatment occurs between both athletes and between athletes and their coaches. It is the coherency and atmosphere in the group that is a vital factor for the sport to lead to positive feelings and experiences. When there is no strong coherency, the atmosphere is perceived as negative, destructive criticism between athletes increases or when destructive criticism comes from coaches, it leads to negative feelings and experiences. The most commonly form of emotional abuse and maltreatment was verbal abuse, lack of attention, neglect and non-verbal abuse. The result show effects such as decrease in performance, lower self-confidence and insecurity. It also shows effects associated with feelings such as irritation, inadequateness, unsuccessfulness and sadness. Emotional abuse and maltreatment occurs on practice, competitions as well as beside the field of play and is in the vast majority of situations linked to performance.

The purpose of the study is to make preschool teachers’ experiences of the preschool's activities in relation to the best interests of the child visible. The study is based on the method of semi-structured interviews of a total of five preschool teachers.                             The results of the study show how the preschool teachers express the experience that the child should experience safety when they come to and stay in preschool. The preschool teachers describe how the attitude and sensitivity affect the child's opportunities for participation and influence. They express the importance of being present for the child to have influence, to be involved but also to have the opportunity to develop. At the same time, the results show how the preschool teachers expresses that it can be challenging to be sensitive to the child's expressions and feelings and not what the guardian thinks is the child's best interest in preschool. Furthermore, the results show how the reflection time varied among the preschool teachers and their experiences of more and less reflection time. What is prominent in the result is the preschool teachers' attitude towards the youngest preschool children. Some of the preschool teachers express the experience of working in a young children's department and how it includes that the youngest children have a harder time expressing themselves and having their own opinion. / Studiens syfte är att synliggöra förskollärarens upplevelser kring förskolans verksamhet i förhållande till barnets bästa. Till grund för studien ligger metoden semistrukturerade intervjuer av totalt fem förskollärare.                              Studiens resultat visar hur förskollärarna uttrycker upplevelser av att barnet ska uppleva tryggheten när de kommer till och vistas i förskolan. Förskollärarna beskriver hur förhållningssättet och lyhördheten påverkar barnets möjligheter till delaktighet och inflytande. De uttrycker vikten av att vara närvarande för att barnet ska få inflytande, vara delaktig men också för att få möjlighet att utvecklas. Samtidigt visar resultatet hur förskollärarna uttrycker att det kan vara utmanande att vara lyhörd för barnets uttryck och känslor och inte vad vårdnadshavaren menar är barnets bästa i förskolan. Vidare visar resultatet hur reflektionstiden varierade bland förskollärarna och deras erfarenheter av mer eller mindre reflektionstid. Det som är framträdande i resultatet är förskollärarnas förhållningssätt till de yngsta förskolebarnen. Enstaka förskollärare uttrycker erfarenheten av att arbeta på yngrebarnsavdelning och hur det innefattar att de yngsta barnen har svårare att uttrycka sig och ha en egen åsikt.

Barnkonventionen ratificerades i Sverige för 31 år sedan och inkorporerades i svensk lag den 1 januari 2020. Barnkonventionen betraktar barn som rättighetsbärare. Syftet i denna uppsats var att undersöka hur man inom barn och unga i socialtjänsten arbetar med barn i olika åldrar med anknytning till barnkonventionen samt att undersöka hur socialtjänsten uppfattar samverkan med andra professioner i förhållande till konventionen. För att besvara syftet intervjuades fyra socialsekreterare. Materialet från intervjuerna har analyserats genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet tolkades med hjälp av det barndomssociologiska perspektivet och samverkansteori. Resultatet visade att bilden av barn som rättighetsbärare var förankrad inom socialtjänsten med fokus på att barnet skulle höras och vara delaktigt. Vidare framkom att information gällande hur barnkonventionen skulle omsättas i det praktiska arbetet var efterfrågat. Det fanns brist på resurser i förhållande till det arbete som barnkonventionen krävde. Slutsatsen är att synsättet på barn som rättighetsbärare överensstämde med barndomssociologin. Bristande utbildning, rättspraxis och organisatoriska förutsättningar såsom budget riskerade att minska barnkonventionens inflytande i ärenden. Inom samverkan riskerade även resursbrist för professioner att minska barnkonventionens inflytande i ärenden. Korrekta förväntningar på varandras professioner och deras handlingsutrymme betraktades öka barnkonventionens inflytande i samverkan. / The Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified in Sweden 31 years ago and incorporated into Swedish law on 1 January 2020. The convention considers children to be rights holders. The purpose of this essay was to investigate how the social services work with children of different ages in connection with the convention and to investigate how the social services perceive collaboration with other professions in relation to the convention. To answer the purpose, four social secretaries were interviewed. The material from the interviews has been analyzed through a qualitative content analysis. The results were interpreted with the help of the childhood sociological perspective and collaboration theory. The results showed that the image of children as rights holders was rooted in the social services with a focus on the child being heard and involved. Furthermore, it emerged that information regarding how the convention was to be implemented in the practical work was requested. There was a lack of resources in relation to the work required by the convention. The conclusion is that the view of children as rights holders was in line with the sociology of childhood. Lack of education, case law and organizational conditions such as the budget risked reducing the influence of the convention in matters. In collaboration, a lack of resources risked reducing the influence of the convention in the matter. Correct expectations of each other's professions and their scope for action were considered to increase the influence of the convention in collaboration.

"Despite the adoption and wide ratification of the CRC and ACRWC, the miseries identified and intended to be dealt with by the two instruments are still rampant in many parts of the globe. Tanzania, as will be clearly shown in chapter three of this study, is not an exception in this regard. ... Tanzania has ratified both the CRC and ACRWC without reservations. In relation to international law, Tanzania follows a dualist approach. Despite the fact that Tanzania has ratified the two instruments to date, it does not have a specific comprehensive law on children's rights. That notwithstanding, various laws have been enacted, other amended and several programs put in place to protect children from exploitation, and safeguarding their interests. However, these measures have not yielded any feasible results since their adoption. There are still cases of discrimination in respect of girls, children born out of wedlock, non-fulfilment of the principle of best intersts of the child, socio-economic difficulties threatening children's right to life, survival and development of the child; police brutality against street children, the increasing number of children deprived of a family environment, especially AIDS orphans, and an increase in the incidence of child prostitution, early marriages, and various cultural practices which are harmful to children. This study necessitates investigation of the mechanisms which could be adopted, to assist in the successful implementation of children's rights in Tanzania. ... This study, therefore, draws inspirations from the laws and practices on children's rights in Ghana and South Africa and explores the most effective mode of implementation that can ensure the translation of the noble intentions in the two instruments into genuine effective tools for enhancing the well-being of the children in Tanzania." -- Introduction. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006. / Prepared under the supervision of Ms. Christine Dowuona-Hammond at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

Doctor Legum - LLD / The thesis focused on how the advent of children's rights, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has impacted on the subject of juvenile justice and embarked on a practical examination of law reform in this regard in an African context. The focus was placed on a number of African countries that have embarked on or completed child law reform in the aftermath of ratification of the CRC. The case studies in this thesis were Ghana (1998-2003), Kenya (1993-2001), Namibia (1994 to date), Lesotho (2003 to date), South Africa (1997 to date) and Uganda (1992-1996). / South Africa

This paper analyses the child rights and juvenile justice system in the contemporary Russian Federation as one of the member countries, that adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. The choice of the researched country is based on the fact, that Russia is one of the few countries in the world, that has adopted a system of juvenile justice and particularly, the juvenile court as an executive juvenile legal authority, that is primarily addressed to the facilitation of child rights and its compliance to the Convention. The paper provides a qualitative content analysis on the juvenile justice and the child rights in Russia, formed in the sequential themes, in which the child rights are compiled and discussed. The results of this paper show how the juvenile justice system is developed in Russia and which advantages/disadvantages it has, as well as what are the new themes in the Russian legislation on the child rights. Therefore, these results are relevant to the field of criminology, in order to conduct future research on the child delinquency, juvenile victimology and other related areas. Thus, an important aspect of this research is to underline a need in the further research in child rights protection, specifically becoming not only as an international obligation, but a national one for all of the countries. The analysis of this paper can serve as the basis for subsequent scientific research and thereby, to contribute to the new solutions of problems associated with the realization of the child rights and their protection. / <p>Madsen, D. Juvenile Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. A qualitative content analysis on the example of the Russian Federation. <em>Degree project in Criminology 15 Credits</em>. Malmö University: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Criminology, 2020</p>

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was adopted in 1989 and became a current topic again when the Swedish government incorporated it into Swedish law on the 1st of January 2020. UNCRC contains 54 articles and one of them is article 12, which states that all children have the right to express their views on any issue that concerns them. Research shows that this is rarely the case within sports clubs, and children struggle to make their voices heard. Therefore, the aim of the study was to bring knowledge about the board of the sports clubs point of view on this issue, and their experience of children's access to the democratic processes. Data were generated through interviews with 9 chairmen within different sports clubs. The results showed that the chairmen had very different definitions of democracy, and therefore their perceptions of children's access to it varied. On this basis a majority of the sports clubs believed the children had good access to the democratic processes within their sports clubs. In the cases where the opinion was that the children did not have good access, explanations were based on children's maturity or the coach's lack of time and knowledge. Another conclusion is that sports clubs in general make decisions based on what they think is best for the child or ask their parents instead, and therefore claim their club activities are good for children.

En grupp som har svårt att påverka i samhället är barn. Sedan barnkonventionen blev lag 2020har detta kommit att prägla den svenska stadsplaneringen, då lagen säger att barn ska varadelaktiga i beslut som rör dem. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur barn och ungainvolveras i den fysiska planeringen, samt vad barnet har för rätt att påverkaplaneringsprocessen och hur dessa rättigheter tillgodoses. Fokuset ligger på att studera hur treolika kommuner ser på barns delaktighet, vilka tillvägagångssätt kommunerna använder, samtfördelar och utmaningar som följer. Teorierna som ligger till grund genom uppsatsen ärkommunikativ planeringsteori, delaktighetsperspektivet samt rättighetsperspektivet.Uppsatsen bygger på en kvalitativ forskningsmetod, där en flerfallstudie av kommunernagenomförs. Utöver detta är dokumentstudie och intervjuer de metoder vi använder oss av. Idokumentstudien studeras kommunala planhandlingar, och intervjuerna utförs medtjänstepersoner på kommunerna. I intervjuerna uppger samtliga kommuner att de arbetar medbarns och ungas delaktighet i den fysiska planeringen. Kommunerna nämner även att barnsdelaktighet i planeringen medför utmaningar, men de har förslag på hur utmaningarna kanhanteras. Kommunerna har flera olika tillvägagångssätt för att öka barns delaktighet, vilkaanpassas beroende på barnens ålder. De uppvisar även en osäkerhet på hur barnkonventionenska integreras i arbetet. I resultatet framkommer det dock att det finns stora skillnader mellankommunerna och hur arbetet med barnperspektivet ser ut inom planeringen. Slutsatserna somkan dras av resultatet och diskussionen är att samtliga kommuner har mycket kvar att utvecklaoch arbeta med, och att en gemensam utarbetad strategi, med tydliga riktlinjer för hurbarnkonventionen ska implementeras i kommunernas arbete, är något som bör framställas inomen snar framtid. / One group that has difficulty influencing society is children. Since the Convention on theRights of the Child became law in 2020, this has come to characterize Swedish urban planning,as the law states that children must be involved in decisions that affect them. The purpose ofthe thesis is to investigate how children and young people are involved in physical planning,as well as what the child has the right to influence the planning process and how these rightsare met. The focus is on studying how three different municipalities view children'sparticipation, what approaches the municipalities use, and the benefits and challenges thatfollow. The theories on which the thesis is based are communicative planning theory, theparticipation perspective and the rights perspective. The thesis is based on a qualitative researchmethod, where a multiple case study of the municipalities is carried out. In addition to this,document study and interviews are the methods we use. In the document study, municipalplanning documents are studied, and the interviews are conducted with officials at themunicipalities. In the interviews, all municipalities state that they work with children's andyoung people's participation in physical planning. The municipalities also mention thatchildren's participation in planning entails challenges, but they have suggestions on how thechallenges can be handled. The municipalities have several different approaches to increasechildren's participation, which are adapted depending on the children's age. They also showuncertainty about how the Convention on the Rights of the Child should be integrated into thework. The results show, however, that there are major differences between the municipalitiesand how the work with the child perspective looks in planning. The conclusions that can bedrawn from the results and the discussion are that all municipalities have much left to developand work with, and that a jointly developed strategy, with clear guidelines for how theConvention on the Rights of the Child should be implemented in the municipalities' work, issomething that should be presented in the near future.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the social workers work with the best interests of the child has changed since the incorporation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC) in 2020. It was also to see how their work with the child's right to participation, and how the social workersroom for action has been affected by the incorporation of the CRC. To answer the questions of the study, we chose a qualitative method. The collected data came from interviews with social workers who work in different areas and in different parts of Sweden. As a theoretical frame of reference, we used the concept of room for action and Lipsky´s theory of grassroots bureaucrats. The results showed that the more the respondents worked with children, the smaller the difference and the less they worked with children, the bigger the difference.Something that has changed since the CRC became law is that there has been greater clarity around the best interests of the child. Something that the study shows is how lack of resources has affected the work with the best interests of the child. The reason why those who work with children did not experience any difference in their work before and after the CRC became law is to some extent due to the social workers working method, the childs need in center (BBIC). / Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur socionomernas arbete med barnets bästa förändrats sedan inkorporeringen av barnkonventionen 2020. Syftet var också att undersöka hur socionomerna arbetade med barnets rätt till delaktighet, samt hur socionomernas handlingsutrymme påverkades av inkorporeringen av barnkonventionen. Som teoretisk referensram använde vi oss av begreppet handlingsutrymme samt Lipskys teori om gräsrotsbyråkrater. För att besvara studiens frågeställningar valde vi att använda oss av en kvalitativ metod. Empirin samlades in genom intervjuer med sju socionomer som arbetade inom olika områden inom socialtjänsten och i olika delar av Sverige. Resultatet visade att i de verksamheter respondenterna arbetade direkt med barn blev skillnaden i arbetet mindre medande som arbetade i verksamheter som inte vände sig direkt mot barn märkte större skillnad. En av skillnaderna respondenterna såg sedan inkorporeringen var att det blivit tydligare vad som är barnets bästa. Något som under studiens gång tydligt framkom var hur resursbrister påverkade arbetet med barnets bästa. Anledningen till att de som arbetar med barn inte upplevde någon markant skillnad i arbetet före och efter inkorporeringen av barnkonventionen som lag beror till viss del på arbetsmodellen Barns behov i centrum (BBIC).