<p>The essay's aim was to see which attitudes county council's and municipality representatives had about themes like: collaboration and competence in the work around double diagnosed persons. Its objective was to zero in on the attitudes of the representatives regarding a coallocated collaboration project in Stockholm. Also, it sought to find out what attitudes the representatives had about the other representatives attitudes concerning the above mentioned themes. A number of attitudes were presented during the qualitative interviews with the representatives, highlighting which attitudes seemed strongest. Then the interviews were analyzed using meaning condensation and then set against the theory of social representations.</p><p>The analysis showed that before work with the target group starts, there’s a need for synchronization of the different representatives involved in the collaboration project. It would help bridge those organisations existing cultural differences, which otherwise, creates conflicts within the personnel group. Lastly, the analysis also indicated that the majority of the county council's representatives were in a weak position vis-à-vis the municipality representatives. However, when it comes to the double diagnosed group, it came to the attention of everyone involved in the project that collaboration is critically important.</p>

<p>The purpose of this essay is to examine how social welfare secretaries from the social service and welfare officers from adult psychiatry experience the cooperation between themselves in relation to mentally ill mothers and their children.Moreover, the study aims to shed light on social welfare secretaries and welfare officers views on potential gender related differences in the work with mentally ill mothers and fathers.Five qualitative interviews were performed in two separate municipals in the Stockholm area. Three of the respondents were social welfare secretaries in the social services and two were welfare officers in the adult psychiatry. Our theoretical starting point has been role theory and a model of different dimensions of cooperation.Our result showed that there were shortcomings in the cooperation between the two principals. How well the cooperation worked differed between the two municipals. In one of the examined municipals the cooperation could only be found on an individual client or individual patient case level, whilst in the other municipal the cooperation existed on a more general level in the form of project meetings. The respondents brought up that there are circumstantial complications that hinders a well functioning cooperation between the two principals such as secrecy regulations, the fact that the principals work from different perspectives and unclear responsibility.</p>

<p>Uppsatsen syftar till att ge en allmän beskrivning av den grupp som kommer till rättspsykiatrisk undersökning samt att utreda gruppens förändring över en period på sju år. Variabler som behandlas är kön, invandrarbakgrund, diagnos, brott och påföljd. Uppsatsen som är en kvantitativ studie, kan ses som ett inlägg i debatten kring den allvarligt psykiskt störda brottslingen.</p><p>Uppsatsen är en retrospektiv registerstudie utifrån ett medicinskt kriminologisk perspektiv. Materialet består av 4466 stycken rättspsykiatriska undersökningar mellan åren 1998 och 2004 och inhämtades från Rättsmedicinalverkets centrala arkiv. I resultatet framkommer att personlighetsstörningar i allt mindre utsträckning anses utgöra en allvarlig psykisk störning. Samtidigt blir de allt mindre frekventa som diagnoser inom gruppen. Psykossjukdomar är de diagnoser som i högst utsträckning anses utgöra en allvarlig psykisk störning. Kvinnor bedöms i en klart högre utsträckning än män lida av en allvarlig psykisk störning. Det förekommer ingen skillnad mellan svenskar och invandrare i bedömningen av allvarlig psykisk störning. Dock diagnostiseras invandrare oftare med psykosdiagnoser samt skattas att fungera sämre enligt GAF-skalan. Våldsbrottens andel bland de undersökta har ökat. Dock utgörs det främst av en ökning i hot och misshandel och kan inte påvisas vara relaterat till en ökning i dödligt våld.</p>

The purpose of this essay is to examine how social welfare secretaries from the social service and welfare officers from adult psychiatry experience the cooperation between themselves in relation to mentally ill mothers and their children.Moreover, the study aims to shed light on social welfare secretaries and welfare officers views on potential gender related differences in the work with mentally ill mothers and fathers.Five qualitative interviews were performed in two separate municipals in the Stockholm area. Three of the respondents were social welfare secretaries in the social services and two were welfare officers in the adult psychiatry. Our theoretical starting point has been role theory and a model of different dimensions of cooperation.Our result showed that there were shortcomings in the cooperation between the two principals. How well the cooperation worked differed between the two municipals. In one of the examined municipals the cooperation could only be found on an individual client or individual patient case level, whilst in the other municipal the cooperation existed on a more general level in the form of project meetings. The respondents brought up that there are circumstantial complications that hinders a well functioning cooperation between the two principals such as secrecy regulations, the fact that the principals work from different perspectives and unclear responsibility.

The essay's aim was to see which attitudes county council's and municipality representatives had about themes like: collaboration and competence in the work around double diagnosed persons. Its objective was to zero in on the attitudes of the representatives regarding a coallocated collaboration project in Stockholm. Also, it sought to find out what attitudes the representatives had about the other representatives attitudes concerning the above mentioned themes. A number of attitudes were presented during the qualitative interviews with the representatives, highlighting which attitudes seemed strongest. Then the interviews were analyzed using meaning condensation and then set against the theory of social representations. The analysis showed that before work with the target group starts, there’s a need for synchronization of the different representatives involved in the collaboration project. It would help bridge those organisations existing cultural differences, which otherwise, creates conflicts within the personnel group. Lastly, the analysis also indicated that the majority of the county council's representatives were in a weak position vis-à-vis the municipality representatives. However, when it comes to the double diagnosed group, it came to the attention of everyone involved in the project that collaboration is critically important.

The aim of the essay was to see how the respondents reasoned about different themes like, isolation, integration and barriers to integration, given that they had all been diagnosed with a psychosis diagnosis. The essay takes part of secondary data that had been gathered through interviews by researchers at the department of Research and Development Psychiatric South Stockholm during a 3 year period. To work with the interview data a qualitative interview analysis method was used. The interviews were analyzed against theories of social interaction, labeling, stigma and the theory of ”role exit”. The analysis showed that to be given a psychosis diagnosis is an indicator that one will be isolated from society in terms of work, economy and social relations. A more surprising find of this essay was that even though one is viewed as isolated in terms of the points given above, it does not mean that one necessarily want to strive for a full integration again. One possible interpretation of this find is that one thinks that one is more well off in the current situation than in an integrated situation.

The purpose of this paper was to examine how clients on the unit for adults at Södemalms district administration (Stockholm, Sweden) with severe mental illness and substance abuse differs from other clients with substance abuse at the baseline and at follow-up one year later. We have used a quantitative method and analyzed material from ASI-interviews performed at the adult drug abuse unit at Södermalm during the time period 2002-2010. At the baseline the clients with substance abuse and co-occurring severe mental illness have more problems than other clients, primarily in the area of mental health. They spend more time alone and are more likely to engage in illegal activities. Interviewers assess their situation as more serious and that they need more help in all of ASI's areas of life than other clients. Persons with severe mental illness have improved during the follow-up. However, the numbers of homeless people have increased and fewer have jobs. Meanwhile, more people have a regular income from the social security, their somatic status has improved, fewer hang out with people who have an active addiction, they engaged not so much in crime. Furthermore, the proportion of heavy use alcohol and narcotics has declined. Mental health improved significantly. The proportion meeting the threshold of severe mental disorder is reduced from 47% to 29%. The risk of suicide attempts in the last month reduced from 5% to 1%.

Uppsatsen syftar till att ge en allmän beskrivning av den grupp som kommer till rättspsykiatrisk undersökning samt att utreda gruppens förändring över en period på sju år. Variabler som behandlas är kön, invandrarbakgrund, diagnos, brott och påföljd. Uppsatsen som är en kvantitativ studie, kan ses som ett inlägg i debatten kring den allvarligt psykiskt störda brottslingen. Uppsatsen är en retrospektiv registerstudie utifrån ett medicinskt kriminologisk perspektiv. Materialet består av 4466 stycken rättspsykiatriska undersökningar mellan åren 1998 och 2004 och inhämtades från Rättsmedicinalverkets centrala arkiv. I resultatet framkommer att personlighetsstörningar i allt mindre utsträckning anses utgöra en allvarlig psykisk störning. Samtidigt blir de allt mindre frekventa som diagnoser inom gruppen. Psykossjukdomar är de diagnoser som i högst utsträckning anses utgöra en allvarlig psykisk störning. Kvinnor bedöms i en klart högre utsträckning än män lida av en allvarlig psykisk störning. Det förekommer ingen skillnad mellan svenskar och invandrare i bedömningen av allvarlig psykisk störning. Dock diagnostiseras invandrare oftare med psykosdiagnoser samt skattas att fungera sämre enligt GAF-skalan. Våldsbrottens andel bland de undersökta har ökat. Dock utgörs det främst av en ökning i hot och misshandel och kan inte påvisas vara relaterat till en ökning i dödligt våld.

Partnervåld med dödlig utgång mot en kvinna utgör ungefär 20-30 procent av alla mord i Sverige och under 2019 resulterade våldet i att 16 kvinnor dödades. Forskningsläget är idag tudelat angående om förövare av dödligt partnervåld ska behandlas som en separat grupp från andra förövare av dödligt våld. Syftet var därmed att jämföra män som dödat sin kvinnliga partner/ex-partner med män som dödat en annan person som de inte hade en parrelation med, specifikt gällande typ av våld och psykisk störning. Studien har använt en tvärsnittsdesign med ett retrospektivt förhållningssätt där ett urval på totalt 160 domar använts från år 2015 till 2020. Resultatet visade en signifikant skillnad där män som dödat sin kvinnliga partner/ex-partner använde reaktivt våld i högre utsträckning jämfört med män som dödat en annan person som de inte hade en parrelation med som istället övervägande använde instrumentellt våld. Gällande psykisk störning fanns ingen signifikant skillnad mellan grupperna. Sammanfattningsvis bidrar det faktum att grupperna skiljer sig åt gällande typ av våld till forskningsläget genom att ge en indikation på att de bör särskiljas. / Intimate partner violence with a deadly outcome against a woman constitutes approximately 20-30 percent of all homicides in Sweden, during 2019 the violence resulted in 16 women being murdered. Research today is considered to be divided regarding whether perpetrators of intimate partner homicide should be considered a separate group from other perpetrators of deadly violence. The purpose of this study was therefore to compare men who have murdered their female intimate partner/ex-partner with men who have murdered another person they didn’t have an intimate relationship with, specifically regarding type of violence and mental disorder. The study used a cross sectional design with a retrospective approach and a sample of totally 160 verdicts from 2015 to 2020. The results showed a significant difference where men who have murdered their female intimate partner/ex-partner used reactive violence to a greater extent compared to men who have murdered another person that they didn’t have an intimate relationship with, who instead predominantly used instrumental violence. Regarding mental disorder there were no significant differences between the groups. In conclusion, the fact that the groups differ in type of violence contributes to the research field by giving an indication that they should be distinguished.

Background: The Swedish penal code has viewed self-induced temporary insanity, caused by intoxication, depending on which Sociology of Punishment is currently active. Starting from a lenient view of drug-induced insanity in the Middle Ages towards a harsher penal climate today.  Aims: This thesis aims to investigate how the Courts of Appeals views self-induced temporary insanity. Specifically, the investigation highlights how the courts navigate between the conflicting rationalities governing criminal intent on the one hand and drug abuse on the other. Results: A thematic analysis using NVivo showed that the Court of Appeals verdicts are inconsistent regarding sentencing when addiction is involved. The results also show a lack of knowledge about addiction as an illness within the Court of Appeals and that the courts sentence substance abusers much harder than others with temporary insanity. The thesis concludes that the Rule of Law is at risk when inconsistent verdicts are commonplace.