Sture Bergwall, tidigare känd som seriemördaren Thomas Quick, är ett av de mest uppmärksammade fallen i svensk rättshistoria. Studiens syfte är att beskriva hur kvällspressen framställde Bergwalls karaktär under tiden han var dömd för flera mord, respektive tiden efter resningsansökan då han frikändes från samtliga mord. Avsikten är även att ta reda på om beskrivningarna skiljer sig från varandra och i så fall hur. Vidare används Christies teori om ideal och icke ideal gärningsman samt begreppen karaktärsdrag och avhumanisering för att analysera beskrivningarna. Vi valde att studera artiklar från Expressen och Aftonbladet under fyra specifika årtal där artiklarna innehöll beskrivningar om Bergwalls karaktär. Materialet analyserade genom en tematisk analys och vi identifierade fyra övergripande teman som representerade kvällspressens beskrivning om Bergwall innan och efter frikännandet. Temana innan frikännandet var Omänsklig och Bräcklig galning medan temana efter frikännandet var Galning och Mänsklig. Resultatet och analysen visade att det fanns en viss förändring av kvällspressens beskrivande om Bergwalls karaktär innan och efter hans frikännande men även en likartad beskrivning i vissa avseenden. Innan frikännandet beskrevs Bergwalls karaktär som omänsklig där vi urskilde en avhumanisering av hans person. Samtidigt beskrevs han under samma period som en bräcklig och galen människa. Beskrivningen av Bergwall under denna period var lik gestaltningen av en idealisk gärningsman samtidigt som gestaltningen av honom som bräcklig galning inte var förenligt med en idealisk eller icke idealisk gärningsman. Efter frikännandet beskrevs Bergwalls karaktär som mänsklig där det även fanns en skildring om hans utsatthet. Det fanns under denna period även skildringar om honom som galen och farlig. Beskrivandet av Bergwall efter frikännandet tydde på en överlappning mellan gärningsman och offer. Utifrån teorin beskrevs han därmed som en icke idealisk gärningsman.

I denna uppsats ämnar författaren studera hur den mediala framställningen av sexuell exploatering av barn har förändrats från 2001 till 2022 utifrån två olika dimensioner, offer och förövare. Detta görs genom en diskursanalys av 240 artiklar från Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet. Med ett teoretiskt ramverk som utgår från diskursteori och Nils Christies teori om det idealiska offret besvaras frågeställningen: Hur framställs barn som brottsoffer för sexuell exploatering i den mediala diskursen? Hur har den framställningen förändrats över tid? Analysen fokuserar på vilka subjektspositioner diskursen tillhandahåller samt vilka aktörer som dominerar debatten och därmed formar diskursen. Resultatet visar att framställningen av sexuell exploatering av barn påverkas av hur offer- och förövarskap porträtteras i media. Uppsatsen avslutas med en diskussion av undersökningens resultat utifrån relevanta teman som framkommit i analysarbetet.

Filicide is the term for when a parent kills their child. Filicide is very unusual in Sweden butis nonetheless a crime category that is frequently discussed in the media.The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper insight into how victims and perpetrators areportrayed by the Swedish media in cases of filicide and how perpetrators are portrayed inrelation to their gender. By studying media representations of victims and perpetrators incases of filicide there is a potential opportunity to gain an increased understanding of what thegeneral conversation regarding filicide looks like. The study has a social constructivistapproach where the assumption is that the world is constructed through social interactions. Inaddition, a critical approach to victimology is applied, as victimhood in the study is notunambiguous but complex.The study has been carried out through a qualitative thematic content analysis of 57 articlesregarding cases of filicide between January 1 2018 and April 12 2023 from the Swedish dailypress. It turned out that the Swedish media tends to portray the victims and the perpetrators inrelation to each other, where they are never described completely independently. The way themedia portrays the perpetrators has a major impact on how the victim is portrayed and viceversa. The perpetrators tend to be portrayed as multifaceted and complex individuals at theexpense of the victim's status and focus in the articles. In cases where they are not describedin the mentioned way, the perpetrators are described as vengeful 'monsters', which affects thevictim's status in a way that instead gives the victim more space in the articles.The victims, on the other hand, are portrayed as either pitied and helpless or as one of manychildren who fall victim to society's failure. It is therefore not surprising that Sweden's socialinstitutions, such as the social services and the social board, are often portrayed asperpetrators in cases of filicide.

The aim of this study is to understand what type of experience the social workers in child protection, in the children and family unit at the social services, have of working with fathers and their children exposed to domestic violence and identify construction of genders bias to the social workers in child protections work. I intend to analyze the experiences of the social workers in child protection had with working with battered fathers and children by Johnssons (1995) and Isdal (2017) psychological strategies that’s been used in strategies in practices of abuse, situational abuse, systematic abuse, the theories of gender and masculinities and Nils Christies theory of the ideal victim. Further on I tried to find out how the social workers in child protection understand women/mother’s abuse towards fathers. Finally, I wanted to know which help and support the battered fathers and their children are given. To find the answers of the study’s aim and approach to the problems, I have used a qualitative study where I have interviewed nine social workers in child protection in the children and family unit at the social services in three different cities. My empirical material shows different experiences of working with battered fathers and their children. Seven out of nine social workers in child protection had no experience of working with fathers that have had been exposed to sexual abuse by their children’s mother. Six out of nine social workers in child protection had experience of working with fathers that had been subject of physical abuse. Working with fathers that had been exposed of psychological abuse by their children’s mother seven out of nine social workers in child protection had experience of. Two out of nine social workers in child protection had met fathers that had been exposed to financial abuse by their children’s mother. None of the social workers in child protection had experience of working with fathers that have been exposed to negligence from their children’s mother. Eight out of nine social workers in child protection stated that battered men might be ashamed of being abused and find it hard to talk about it. Social workers in child protection contemplated that men are ashamed of being abused because they are stronger and physical bigger than the women. The majority of the social workers in child protection advised that battered fathers get the same protection, help and support that as if it was a battered mother. Some examples of what help an abused father can get is protected living, therapy and there is a domestic violence hotline for men. A few social workers in child protection argue that the battered fathers and their children get less help compared to battered mothers and their children. The majority of the social workers in child protection stated that it is easier to ii observe and pay attention to battered mothers and their children compared to battered fathers and their children.

Animal art is one of the more mystical aspects of Scandinavian Iron Age culture. It has foremost been regarded in the light of art and style history. Interpretation has also – mainly from the 1990s and onwards – been made through iconographic analysis. But the problem here is that iconography requires textual analogy, something that the Scandinavian Iron Age lacks. The purpose of this paper is to lift some of the ”mystical fog” that engulfs the scandinavian animal art, by developing a method for interpretation of pre-historic images that evades the flaws in the iconographic method. This by doing an interpretation of the gripping beast motif on Gotlandic Viking Age animal-head brooches. The study is divided into three parts. Part one focuses on reception within research history and how the use of language and methodological approaches shapes the perception of animal art within it's own time, it also discusses animal art in the light of style, motif and communication. Part two aims to outline a method for pre-historic image interpretation, a structuralistic iconology with addition of contextualization and anthropological theories of agency. The chapter also discusses the cosmological order through means of ”structuralistic iconology”. Finally part three contextualizes the gripping beast to the object – the animal head-brooch – through notions of use, combination and age. Concluding that the gripping beast should be understood as a hybrid creature closely linked to ancestry, odal and the fatalistic worldview of Iron Age Scandinavia.