The subject of this bachelor thesis in criminology has been local crimeprevention. More specifically the matter of comparing Sölvesborgsmunicipality and the national governments policy regarding local crimeprevention. In 2023 a law regarding municipalities responsibility to institute alocal crime prevention strategy was implemented.The passing of this law led to the subject of this thesis, when municipalitiesbecame obligated to conduct local crime prevention the need to study how theimplemented systems differ from the official national documents arose.To conduct the study a WPR or What’s the problem represented to be approachwas used to study and discern the underlying problem formulation andrepresentation in the respective policy documents. In addition to that Sahlinsfour models of crime prevention and Luhmann ́s theory of autopoietic systemsprovided a theoretical framework to the thesis.The study found that there is a discernible difference between the municipaland national level regarding the representation of crime prevention. Thenational policy documents focus heavily on the improvements to crimepreventions that can be made through the effectivization of institutions. Incontrast to this the analysis of the local level showed that there is a focus oninformal and formal social control through mainly the visibility of authorityfigures such as police, security guards and the municipal hosts of security.