Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur olika brottsförebyggande aktörer ser på det 364 dagar långa uppehållet av skjutningar som varade i Linköping mellan 28 januari 2022 och 27 januari 2023. Syftet var även att studera hur aktörerna ser på förebyggande arbete mot skjutningar i Linköping på ett övergripande plan. För att studera detta har kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts med sex relevanta brottsförebyggande aktörer i kommunen. Resultatet visade att uppehållet utifrån informanternas beskrivning till stor del berodde på tillfälligheter som lett till avhållsamhet hos de som annars genomför skjutningar. Aktörerna hade dock tilltro till det egna och andra aktörers arbete på området, både preventivt och ingripande, och menade att samverkan mellan aktörerna är fundamentalt i arbetet mot skjutningar. De viktigaste slutsatserna var att det inte går att säkerställa varför uppehållet uppstod, men att aktörernas bilder av uppehållet och vilka åtgärder som fungerar var samstämmiga. Dessa åtgärder avser främst samverkan och närvaro. / The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of crime prevention actors regarding the 364-day absence of shootings in Linköping between January 28, 2022, and January 27, 2023. Additionally, the study aims to investigate how these actors perceive preventive efforts against shootings in Linköping. Qualitative interviews were conducted with six relevant crime prevention actors in Linköping to examine these aspects. The findings revealed that, according to the informants' descriptions, the absence of shootings during this period was largely due to coincidental factors that abstained potential perpetrators. Nevertheless, the actors expressed confidence in the effectiveness of their own and other actors' preventive and intervention initiatives, emphasizing the fundamental role of interagency collaboration in preventing shootings. The study concludes that while specific reasons for the absence cannot be determined, actors' perceptions and the importance of interagency collaboration was consistent. The findings highlight interagency collaboration and active presence in crime prevention.

The purpose of the study is to create knowledge about how Swedish news media report on gang-related shootings, in particular how victims and perpetrators are portrayed, to discuss how media reports can affect readers´perseptions. In order to answer the purpose of the study, framing and a modified pentad analysis were used. The study is a text interpretation with a hermeneutic approach, which allows an interpretation of the analysis result. The conclusion of the study shows that victims and perpetrators are portrayed in a generalized way. Several frames have been identified that indicate that thee are stereotypical conceptions about both how a person who is involved in a shooting is as a person and where this person lives. In turn, the study shows that this portrayal of the actors can have an impact on how readers of the news media perceive the events and their actors. It appears that there are differences in how victims are portrayed depending on whether the victim has a previous criminal record or not. The possible impact that arises is mainly that the actors in the events are dehumanized by the readers if the person has been punished before, and that this in turn leads to people in society starting to value people´s lives differently. The life of a gang criminal dose not appear in the articles to be as valuable as a person who does not have a previous criminal record.