This essay aims to investigate how female murder victims are portrayed in Swedish newspapers. By analyzing how the murder of the two Swedish women, Tova Moberg and Kim Wall, are portrayed in four of Sweden’s biggest newspapers; Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet we aim to understand if, and how, they differ. Four research questions have therefore been conducted: 1) What are the similarities and differences between Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet’s way of portraying female murder victims? 2) What meaning does the genre, for example type of newspaper, the editorial department and type of article have in the depiction of female murder victims? 3) What meaning does the production of the male suspects (in these two specific cases) have for the portrait of the female murder victims? And lastly 4) How can our results be connected to previous research, in terms of media representations of women as crime victims? The theoretical framework was used to answer these four questions, and involves the social constructionism perspective, genre theory, gender theory and a combined chapter of media rethorics, media logic and media dramaturgy. The material consists of articles from the four newspapers, and the chosen method is textual analysis. The results show, that there are explicit examples, and implicit tendencies of victim blaming in both murder cases, but not in all four papers. In conclusion, the tabloids tend to write in a way to intrigue and interest, while the daily newspapers seem to write in more of an objective and neutral manner. This essay is partly built upon previous studies on victim blaming in british newspapers. Previous research about the phenomena of victim blaming or ideal victim has not been conducted in swedish press and this essay can therefore serve as a contribution to the scientific field of media and communication and journalism in Sweden.

A partir de entrevistas e observação participante de eventos, esta dissertação versa sobre a construção social da “vítima” e a articulação do sofrimento e dor como elementos de mobilização e luta política. O trabalho tem como universo empírico os movimentos e familiares de vítimas de violência politicamente organizados no Rio Grande do Sul e no Rio de Janeiro. Tais movimentos e familiares, reunidos pela dor, empreendem uma árdua luta na busca por “justiça”, que envolve heterogêneas configurações de elementos contingentes, tais como “violência”, “Estado”, “vida”, “humanidade” e “justiça”. É objetivo principal deste trabalho compreender, de uma maneira antropológica, (i) as formas de construção dessa gramática moral da figura da “vítima” como modo de ação política; (ii) os modos de efetivação das denúncias públicas cujos fundamentos se referem à dor e ao sofrimento causados pela violência e, por fim, (iii) os aspectos subjetivos – menos visíveis – das narrativas sobre violência e dor que conformam os testemunhos de familiares implicados em eventos considerados violentos. Foi possível perceber que vítima e algoz constroem-se em relação e que a denuncia pública da dor é feita através de uma linguagem relacional do sofrimento, explicitando uma tensão entre tal linguagem e a linguagem individualista do trauma. A dor é um elemento que ultrapassa a esfera da denúncia pública, abrangendo o cotidiano dos familiares de vítimas em suas estratégias de inserção política e de administração do sofrimento. / Bearing on interviews and participant observation of meetings, this work focuses on the social construction of the "victim" and the articulation of suffering and pain as components of political mobilization and struggle. This study takes as its corpus groups of politically organized relatives of victims of violence and related movements based in Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro. Brought together by their members’ similar experiences of suffering, such movements and groups of relatives undertake an arduous struggle in the course of their pursuit of "justice", which involves heterogeneous configurations of contingent elements, such as "violence", "State", "life", "humanity" and "justice." Our main purpose is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, (i) their ways of constructing this moral grammar of victimhood as a mode of political action; (ii) their ways of bring about public denunciations against the offenders by means of referring to their own pain and suffering caused by violence; and, finally, (iii) the subjective and less visible aspects of their narratives on violence and pain that are built into the testimonies of family members involved in events considered violent. We observed that both victim and perpetrator are relationally constituted as such and that the public denunciation of pain is produced through a relational language of suffering, thus highlighting a tension between that language and the individualistic language of trauma. Pain is an element that goes beyond the sphere of public denunciation, covering the everyday lives of victims’ family members both in their strategies of political membership-avowal and in their coping with suffering.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work have a purposed to examine, in the perspective from the History, the domestic violence into Aracaju, at the 19th century, and your relation with the Education as a process civilized. On this perspective, the search seeks to understand of what it forms were produced and reproduced the phenomenon from domestic violence in Aracaju and how acting and responding the socials players involved with this phenomenon. The work is based on collection data at the Judicial Processes, at the Aracaju s Newspapers, at the Official Journal of Brazil s Empire, and on the bibliography used, especially, like a base to the theory affixed and presupposed in what the domestic violence in Aracaju, on second half of the 19th century, were related with the model of family founded into the patriarchal society, on which the women and children were allocated little importance. On analyzing the relation among the Domestic Violence and the Education, the search seeks in Hannah Bullring and Maria Amélia Azevedo the attach in the concept to understand Violence and Domestic Violence respectively; on the other hand, based on Norbert Elias to understand the Education like a Civilized Process. From of the historian Jorge Carvalho do Nascimento, Anamaria Gonçalves Bueno de Freitas and Maria Thetis Nunes, it still elaborated, incursions on the History from Education in Sergipe in an attempt to understand of what manner the education, like a social practice, developed in Aracaju on the second half of the 19th century and which were the influence into the woman emancipator process. / Este trabalho tem como propósito estudar, na perspectiva da História, a violência doméstica em Aracaju, no século XIX, e sua relação com a Educação como processo civilizador. A pesquisa, nesta perspectiva, procura compreender de que forma foi produzido e reproduzido o fenômeno da violência doméstica em Aracaju e como agiam e reagiam os atores sociais envolvidos com este fenômeno. O trabalho está fundamentado em dados coletados nos Processos Judiciais, nos Jornais do Aracaju, no Diário Oficial do Império do Brasil e na bibliografia utilizada, especialmente, como base para o aporte teórico e pressuposto de que a violência doméstica em Aracaju, na segunda metade do século XIX, esteve relacionada com o modelo de família fundado no patriarcalismo, no qual às mulheres e crianças era atribuída pouca importância. Ao analisar a relação entre a Violência Doméstica e a Educação, a pesquisa busca em Hannah Arendt e Maria Amélia Azevedo o aporte teórico para compreender Violência e Violência Doméstica respectivamente; indo por outro lado, baseia-se em Norbert Elias para compreender a Educação como Processo Civilizador. A partir dos historiadores Jorge Carvalho do Nascimento, Anamaria Gonçalves Bueno de Freitas e Maria Thetis Nunes, elabora-se, ainda, incursões na História da Educação em Sergipe, na tentativa de entender de que modo a educação, como uma prática social, desenvolveu-se em Aracaju na segunda metade do século XIX e qual foi sua influência no processo emancipatório da mulher.

Transitional justice emerged as an integral part of state- and peacebuilding processes during the same period as the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This created a market for human rights promotion in which non-governmental organizations were perceived as experts. Although transitional justice is a well-researched area, few studies have analyzed the production of knowledge by non-governmental organizations in this field. The aim of this study is to bridge this research gap by analyzing how two non-governmental organizations – Human Rights Watch and Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation – create and use the concept of victim in their reports. The reports were analyzed in two steps, based on qualitative content analysis. The first step was to code the material based on theoretical assumptions and the content. The second step was to create a narrative which was the base for the theoretical analysis of the material. The analysis centers around three key concepts: cosmopolitanism, representation and the subaltern. This theoretical framework is created based on the two scholars Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ulrich Beck. The analysis shows that both organizations are creating a space in their reports, a cosmopolitan reality, in which they are legitimizing their own work. The creation of different subjects, such as victim, is also done in relation to this space. In other words, the organizations create the concept of victim to suit their own world-view and rationale.

The aim of this study is to examine how boys, in the context of honour, are perceived by teachers and what kind of efforts are being taken in specific situations. The study is based on seven qualitative interviews with high school teachers, from four different schools in the Stockholm County, using five vignettes. The interviews were processed using a thematic analysis and the result was analysed with the help of Christie’s theory about ideal and non-ideal victims, the theory of street-level bureaucracy and to some extent pathological altruism. The results show that the teachers in general find it easier to define girls as victims rather than boys. The teachers themselves think the reason for that can be that boys are perceived to have more power over their own situation and a freedom that the girls lack. Loud and aggressive behavior complicates the boy’s victimhood further. Reports of concern to Social services are rarely mentioned and is to be taken care of by school counselors or principals. The teachers defined it as the process, but also expressed a feeling of lack of knowledge and in some cases an unwillingness to act due to a fear of prejudging.

This thesis critically examines dominant conceptualizations of safety crimes – offences by corporations that seriously injure and kill workers – within the Alberta oil and gas industry. Using critical discourse analysis, and relying on and Foucaultian and Marxist literatures, the thesis critically examines the extent to which government fatality reports, workplace safety education campaigns and court decisions characterize safety crimes primarily as ‘accidents’ caused by ‘careless’ workers. Two main discourses were found: first, workers were responsibilized, effectively blamed for their own injury and death in the workplace while employers were characterized as largely good and law-abiding; second, serious injury and death was (re)conventionalized as the regrettable but largely unintentional and unavoidable side effect of capitalist production. In the process, the underlying causes of safety crimes, including weak and under-enforced laws and a socio-economic context that prioritizes profits over worker safety, remain untouched.

Denna uppsats ämnar undersöka kvinnors utsatthet i våldsamma relationer och vilka konsekvenser som uppkommit till följd av dessa. Uppsatsen belyser varför en kvinna stannar i en våldsam relation, vad som får henne att lämna den samt hur hennes självidentitet har påverkats efter att hon lämnat mannen och den våldsamma relationen. Metoden som har tillämpats har haft en kvalitativ utgångspunkt med semistrukturerade intervjuer av fem kvinnor som utsatts för våld i en nära relation. Med hjälp av de teoretiska utgångspunkterna, becoming an ex: the process of rote exit, våldets dynamik och normaliseringsprocessen samt social kapital har det varit möjligt att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar som nämnts ovan. Resultaten visar att våldets normalisering under relationen är en betydande bidragande faktor till att en kvinna stannar i en relation där hon är utsatt för våld. Uppsatsens resultat visar att en bidragande faktor till varför kvinnan väljer att lämna en våldsam relation är finnandet av en symbolisk mening till att inte kunna stanna kvar.  En symbolisk mening kan vara att barnen far illa samt instinkten att mannen inte kommer ändra sitt beteende.  Studiens resultat påvisar en tydlig förändring i självidentitet hos samtliga kvinnor som medverkat. Nyckelord: Kvinna, intervjuer, våld i nära relation, våldsutsatt, separation, normalisering / This study aims to investigate how five women have been affected by intimate partner violence and what consequences it has brought upon them. It also clarifies why women stay in violent relationships and what it takes to leave it at the end. The study also explores the effects on women’s self-esteem after leaving a violent relationship.    The methodology used for this study has a qualitative approach and is processed through semi-structured interviews with five women who have experienced intimate partner violence. The theoretical theories that have been used and applied to this study are, “Becoming an example: the process of rotating the exit”, “The dynamics of violence and normalization” and “Social capital”.   The results of the study show that the normalization of intimate partner violence is a major (contributing) factor to why women stay in violent relationships. The contributing factor to why women choose to leave violent relationships is finding of a purpose and a symbolic meaning to not participate in these types of relationships. Examples of these purposes and meanings are the potential harm to children, if children are involved in the situation, or realization of that there are no signs of behavioral change. All five women who participated in this study show a significant change in regards of identity.   Keywords: Woman, interviews, intimate partner violence, victim of violence, separation, normalization.

The present ethnographic research explores the socio-economic repercussions of a copper mining operation in Chile on its host community. By examining the development of the relationship between this local community and the mining company since the latter’s arrival, this thesis sheds light on the possible (secondary) impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) measures and participatory spaces on intracommunal dynamics. Previous work has emphasized that enduring relationships involving participatory decision-making are crucial to build up trust and acceptance towards mining operations. However, these studies have not sufficiently focused on how such participatory mechanisms and ‘friendly’ relationships play out within the communities, on an intracommunal level. This research has addressed this gap by conducting an ethnographic fieldwork in a local community and capturing the community member’s view on the role of the mining company and their CSR measures for them and their community as a whole. This thesis found that the troublesome past with the mining operation has damaged the host community’s trust and acceptance in the involved mining companies. While disappointment and distrust were carried into more recent negotiations, community members also build up confidence and hope for a more harmonious relationship bearing new opportunities for their community. However, tracing back the history between the local community and the mining company, the thesis found that relations between the mining company and locals oscillated between protest against and dialogue. This shows that while (in-) direct economic benefits are recognized and appreciated, detrimental environmental impacts are not overlooked and still denounced. Furthermore, the rather corporate- than community-centered approach of the mining company’s CSR is criticized because it (1) neglects the common good, and (2) treats some groups/individuals in the community as more entitled to receive benefit than others. A general lack of reflection on the part of the mining company is attested: the mining company’s CSR leads to unwanted intracommunal discontent. The majority of the community leaders have full-time jobs and other obligations in addition to the time-consuming roles and related engagement on behalf of the community. On top of that, they lack sufficient support and participation of other community members to advance the work in the participatory spaces more efficiently and address the shortcomings of the commitments of the mining company accurately. However, there are historical reasons, rumors about corruption related to the mining company, and a violent discussion culture which step by step lead to a withdrawal of many community members from participating. In general, distrust, disunity, and disinformation dominate the atmosphere when it comes to the participatory spaces – but also more and more when it comes to community life itself. This in turn was observed to be both a product of and precondition for a prevailing victim mentality among the community which is characterized by demotivation, passivity, and pessimism. Valuable energy is trapped in a vicious circle rather than channeled towards action: there is no unified effort to address the problems on a community-mine level, the community stays overwhelmed, and in turn, has a hard time focusing and targeting the different issues they are facing systematically. / Mining of copper and molybdenum are crucial for our modern lifestyle: they are used for example in electronics, construction, alloys, and transport. Often, the use and consumption of such minerals are alienated from their extraction and production. There is an extensive body of literature on the environmental impacts of mining operations on the ground, however, there is also a need for a more sophisticated analysis which goes beyond the notion of the mere ‘ecological environment’. In this sense, anthropology can make an important contribution in the (re-)presentation of local realities. Therefore, this thesis critically examines, over time, the social and economic repercussions of a mining operation on its host community. Also, it discusses the so called ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) measures implemented by the mining company to gain more acceptance within the local community. By conducting an ethnographic fieldwork in a local community in Chile, I captured the community member’s opinions of the mining operation next door and the CSR program. The thesis found that relations between the mining company and locals oscillated between protest against and dialogue. While economic benefits, for example through jobs or donations for the community, are recognized and appreciated, detrimental environmental impacts are denounced. The rather troublesome past with the mining company has damaged the host community’s trust in and acceptance of the mining operation. However, some community members are still confident and hope for new opportunities through the CSR measures conducted by the mining company. Yet, the CSR approach is also criticized because it (1) neglects the common good, and (2) treats some groups/individuals in the community as more entitled to receive benefit than others. A general lack of reflection on the part of the mining company is attested: the mining company’s CSR leads to unwanted intracommunal discontent. In general, the thesis found that the scope and severity of the environmental and socio-economic problems the host community is facing is overwhelming its capacity to engage and respond effectively. The majority of the community leaders have full-time jobs and other obligations in addition to the time-consuming roles and related engagement on behalf of the community. On top of that, many community members have withdrawn from participatory decision-making spaces. Rumors about corruption have spread distrust among the community and a violent discussion culture has fostered demotivation and disunity. This atmosphere is affecting not just these participatory spaces, but more and more community life itself. This in turn was observed to be both a product of and precondition for a prevailing victim mentality among the community. Such a victim mentality is characterized by passivity and pessimism. Valuable energy is trapped in a vicious circle rather than channeled towards action: there is no unified effort to address the problems with the mining company, the community stays overwhelmed, and in turn, has a hard time focusing and targeting the different issues they are facing systematically.

Bakgrund: Kvinnors brottslighet utgör endast en minimal del av brottsligheten som existerar,eftersom det i regel är män som begår brott. Detta speglas av brist på kunskap om kvinnligaförövare. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att belysa det studerade ämnet och på så sätt ökauppmärksamheten i samhället för kvinnliga mördare. Metod: En systematisk litteraturstudieutfördes om de gemensamma faktorer kvinnliga mördare har. Resultat: Kvinnor mördar somsvar på mäns våld i en relation, oftast i självförsvar. Ett flertal av de kvinnliga förövarnadödar en intim partner, i en nödsakad situation, som ett alternativ till att inte själv blimördade. De tenderar att lida av psykisk ohälsa, mörda i det gemensamma hemmet ochanvända kniv som mordvapen. Slutsats: Kärnan i ett proaktivt tillvägagångssätt är detförebyggande arbetet innan det dödliga våldet blir ett alternativ. Med kunskapen i hand är detav stor vikt att inledningsvis fokusera på partnervåld. Det är uppenbart att den kvinnligaförövaren agerar i rädsla och i självförsvar, vilket gör dem till egna beskyddare närrättsväsendet misslyckas. / Background: Crime committed by women constitutes a minimal part of the overall crimerate. Generally, men are the ones committing majority of crimes. This is reflected by a lack ofknowledge of female perpetrators. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to highlight thesubject studied and thus increase the overall attitude towards female murderers in order toclear up the confusion when solving these cases. Method: A systematic literature study wasconducted to investigate the common denominators among the female perpetrators. Result:Women commit murders in response to men's violence, usually in a relationship and inself-defense. The majority of the female perpetrators kill their intimate partner in fair of notbeing the victim of murder them selves, the motive strictly self-defense. The femaleperpetrators hold some common denominators; mental illness, the crime happen in thecommon home and a knife is usually the murder weapon of choice. Conclusion: The essenceof proactive approach is the preventative work ahead of the crime committed. With theknowledge at hand, law enforcement need to focus on partner violence. It is obvious that theperpetrator act in fear and in self-defense, making them their own protectors when the lawenforcement fails them.

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / This study sought to investigate governmental intervention in maintaining the victim empowerment centres of the Bohlabela Municipality in Mpumalanga. The issue is contemporary and as a social worker the author can confirm that this scourge still affects our society today and understanding government interventions is useful in terms of ensuring that they work as effectively as possible to assist citizens in the discharge of their mandate. The study uses a qualitative approach. Data collection was through interviews and a questionnaire which had open-ended questions. This research design had been chosen because it has allowed to give solid descriptions and narratives to come out from the real life experiences of social workers and victims of domestic violence as well as the challenges associated with the implementation of the victim empowerment programme. To that end, a phenomenological paradigm was adopted to achieve that ambition. The findings of the study indicate that there are acute challenges which the three centres face and these include a lack of funding, poor structure and poor marketing. The recommendations provided are intended to contribute to the centres’ viability and provide effective services in the communities in which they operate. To that end, there is a need for the government to deploy more resources such as funds, infrastructure, equipment and permanent staff as well as the establishment of permanent structures at these centres to ensure their effectiveness. Additionally, the study found that there is a need for intensive and extensive publicity and marketing of the Victim Empowerment Programmes and Victim Empowerment Centres to increase their visibility and ultimately accessibility. The study found that the centres should ideally be managed by an administrator with clinical staff, a nurse and a police officer and/or a member from the judiciary and the centres should be attached to either hospitals or police stations working at extended hours.