La presente investigación pretende conocer el grado de implicación en bullying de los sujetos escolarizados en los últimos cursos de Educación Primaria en la Región de Murcia, así como la relación existente entre esta implicación y ciertas características del clima social, escolar y familiar. La muestra la componen 426 alumnos de edades comprendidas entre 9 y 12 años. Los resultados revelan un nivel de implicación del 15% y muestran diferencias significativas entre los sujetos no implicados y los implicados en bullying en la ascendencia social y en la percepción del clima social escolar y familiar. Un estatus sociométrico más bajo y la percepción de un clima escolar y familiar poco cohesionado y estable sitúa a las víctimas en una situación de mayor indefensión frente a los bullies, quienes perciben malas relaciones en el aula pero tienen el apoyo de ciertos compañeros así como cierto refuerzo a sus conductas agresivas bajo pautas educativas familiares indulgentes. Todos estos elementos del clima social, escolar y familiar favorecen el bullying y refuerzan el desequilibrio de poder entre bully y víctima. / The present research tries to know how subjects on the last levels of Primary School at Región de Murcia are implied on bullying as far as the relation existing between that implication and certain characteristics of social, school and family climate. A total of 426 schoolchildren aged 9-12 were asked to elaborate the research. The results reveal a 15% of implication, they also show significant differences on social status and perception of social, school and family climate between subjects implied and not implied on bullying. A low social status and an unconnected family make the victims to be defenseless. On the other hand bullies, who feel bad relations in the classroom, are supported by some classmates. More over, their aggressive behaviors are supported by permissive family education. All these elements of the social, school and family climate reinforce bullying and make stronger the power differences between bully and victim.

Män utsatta för våld i nära relationer är en målgrupp som får begränsad uppmärksamhet i vårt samhälle. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur män utsatta för våld i nära relationer bemöts av sociala aktörer, som myndigheter, ideella organisationer och kommunala projekt som arbetar med mansfrågor. För att få en djupare förståelse av bemötandet använde vi en kvalitativ metod och genomförde semistrukturerade intervjuer. Respondenterna som intervjuades var aktiva inom ovannämnda verksamheter, och hade varit i kontakt med män utsatta för våld i nära relationer. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten i studien har främst varit Connells teori kring maskuliniteter. Resultaten visar att verksamheterna i denna studie bland annat arbetar individuellt och psykosocialt med målgruppen. Skam och föreställningar kring manligt och kvinnligt samt att maskuliniteten kan utmanas påverkar männens hjälpsöksbeteende. Utbildning kring föreställningar om manligt och kvinnligt samt heteronorm är viktigt för att kunna bemöta målgruppen på ett bra sätt. Vidare visar resultaten att ett inkluderande, förtroendefullt och öppet förhållningssätt, mellan professionell och klient, är viktigt för bemötandet av målgruppen. / Male victims of domestic violence is a group that gets limited attention in our society. The purpose of this study was to examine how male victims of domestic violence are treated by social actors, such as authorities, nonprofit organizations and municipal projects working with male issues. To gain a deeper understanding of attitudes towards this group of men, we used a qualitative approach and conducted semi structured interviews. Respondents, active in above mentioned organizations, who were interviewed, have been in contact with the target group. The theoretical base in this study has been Connell´s theory of masculinities. The results show that the organizations primarily work with the male victims individually, using a psychosocial method. Emasculation, shame and stereotypes of masculinity and femininity can affect men’s help-seeking behavior. Education concerning stereotypes of masculinity and femininity and the heterosexual norm is important to be able to respond to male victims of domestic violence in a good way. Furthermore, the results show that an inclusive, trusting and open relationship, between the professional and the client, is important for the response to the target group.

Våld i när relationer debatteras flitigt i det offentliga rummet. Fokus ligger till största delen på mäns våld mot kvinnor. Män som brottsoffer i samband med våld i nära relationer förekommer endast sporadiskt i forskningsvärlden, och tillskrivs knappt legitim status som brottsoffer i samhället. Till följd av detta är det svårt att uppskatta i vilken omfattning män utsätts för våld. Syftet med den kritiska diskursanalysen var att belysa den normativa ordning som består av en bild av mannen som förövare och kvinnan som offer, samt att analysera hur diskurserna manlighet, kvinnlighet, offer och förövare används i ett konferensmaterial kring våld i nära relationer. Analysen visar att diskurserna utrycks på ett mycket traditionellt sätt och de traditionella könsrollerna förstärks i materialet, samt att män enbart förknippas med offerrollen om de befinner sig i en samkönad relation eller lider av en funktionsnedsättning. Detta kan bero på att befintliga ideologier som radikalfeminismens syn på patriarkatet, liksom föreställningen om offer och förövare, har en maktfunktion och är så förankrad i den diskursiva praktiken att det är svårt att få till en förändring av diskursordningen. / Violence within domestic relationships is much debated in the official space. Focus is mainly on men’s violence against women. Men as crime victims related to domestic violence are only sporadically mentioned in the research world and are hardly given legitimate status as crime victims within society. Due to this, it is difficult to appreciate to what extent men are exposed to violence. The objective of the critical discourse analysis was to highlight the norm that consists of a picture of the man as  perpetrator and the woman as victim and in addition to analyse how the discourses male, female, victim and perpetrator are used in a conference material regarding domestic violence. The analysis show that the discourses are expressed in a very traditional way and the traditional male/female roles are emphasized in the material. Additionally, it shows that men are only connected with the role of victim if they are in a same sex relationship or have special needs. This can be due to that existing ideologies, such as the radical feministic view of the patriarchy as well as the idea of victim and perpetrator, have a function of power and are so embedded in the discursive practice that it is difficult to change the discursive order.

The aim of this Master thesis was to examine news journalism covering expressions of mourning related to violent or unexpected deaths. What rituals for mourning are brought out in media and do media present guidance to how mourners should behave?   The questions examined were: What characterised news events that leaded to texts on expressions of mourning? How was grief framed? Which narrative patterns were there in the texts? How was the deceased represented? How were the mourners represented?   165 texts, from Swedish daily newspapers, covering 93 different news events were analysed. The methods were mainly discourse analysis with focus on identities and relations, but also semiotic analysis with focus on staging and symbols and narrative analysis with focus on patterns for storytelling.   The result showed that a news story about ordinary people expressing their feelings of grief has elements of melodrama. The news story is based on the myth of the victim, and formed as a typical story where equilibrium is disturbed when the inconceivable happens and the mourners can by their actions restore equilibrium. The paradigms behind are the opposites life – death and good – evil.    The deceased is represented as a victim in a mythic sense. The most important qualities of a victim are youth, innocence and goodness. The victim is framed as a person we could sympathise and identify with. The mourners in the texts praise the victim and sanctify the place where the victim died with candles, roses and notes. The mourners are essential to the story; they create identification and an identity that include us as readers in a community and a discourse of mourning and mourners. The ordinary people who appear as mourners in the texts are relatives and close friends of the victim, but also mourning tourists, media chosen friends and anonymous women who are represented, in a stereotypical way, as the professional female mourner who weep over the deceased. In some texts celebrities appear as mourners of ordinary people, and they personalize how the distinction between public and private is erased in popular journalism. They also might give a kind of legitimacy to the way media frame the story about ordinary people mourning the innocent victim.   Some texts had a partly diverging story. If the victim, in some aspect, could not be framed as innocent the paradigm good – evil became problematic. When victims or mourners had foreign origin the contrast us – them was added.  In some texts the ethical code for Swedish journalists was disregarded, mainly by publishing information on ethnicity or by interviewing children and people in shock

Trafficking in persons is a phenomenon that threatens not only basic human rights but also source, passage and destination countries / therefore, it rightfully draws international attention. Being a global threat, it necessitates cooperation and intervention. The aim of the thesis is to analyze anti-trafficking efforts in Turkey by focusing on a particular international initiative. To this end, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is selected as a case and its activities in Turkey are mentioned with the ultimate goal of questioning its effectiveness in the process of fighting against trafficking in persons. The thesis examines the phenomenon of trafficking in persons with a conceptual analysis by dwelling upon the objectives, function and perspective of the IOM. It concentrates on the IOM, which actively assists the Turkish government in every aspect of migration and in combating human trafficking with a particular focus on trafficking in women through the counter-trafficking program implemented in 2004. The thesis also aims at evaluating whether international and local actors take effective actions that cover both the prevention and punishment of trafficking in women, and the protection of victims&rsquo / rights. The binding international legal instrument on the subject matter, the UN Trafficking Protocol of 2000, will be referred to and different approaches to the evaluation of the problem will be mentioned so as to present the focal points of the varying goals.

Thesis (M.S.)--Kungl. Tekniska högskolan, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126). Also available online via the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute web site (www.vti.se).

This thesis explores how the Swedish legal system, specifically the police and district courts, understand and construct cases of human trafficking for sexual purposes and procuring with under-age victims. It draws on police investigative interviews and court decisions in 22 pronounced district court sentences, involving 36 female youths. Theoretically the thesis primarily builds on social constructionism and the sociology of childhood. Methodologically it builds on coding of forensic interviews, narrative analysis and discourse analysis. Study I explores the informativeness of 24 of the 36 adolescents when interviewed by the police. It shows that the adolescents were informative yet evasive, specifically when asked open questions. Experiences of violence and force as well as interviews conducted soon after the police intervention further contributed to evasiveness. Also evasiveness seemed intimately connected to circumstances in each unique case. Study II scrutinises the image of the ideal trafficking victim by asking how the issue of responsibility is handled when police interviews turn to prostitution. It also analyses which interactive and narrative conditions, related to agency and stake, apply for talk in this specific institutional setting. The findings suggest that in order to sort out the ‘real’ victims, the interrogator needs to pull apart the two categories ‘victim’ and ‘prostitute’ even if there may be problems with this clear-cut distinction since the categories tend to blend together. Further, in this institutional setting to talk about sex can be problematic as it may undermine the victim narrative instead creating a subject with interests. Study III explores how Swedish district courts assess the credibility of alleged victims of human trafficking for sexual purposes and the reliability of their testimonies. The findings indicate that the judges base their assessments on the Swedish Supreme Courts’ criteria of how to understand reliability and credibility but they seemed also to be influenced by extra-legal factors relating to victims’ behaviour. Further, the findings imply that the judges used the Supreme Court’s criteria to argue both for and against credibility. By so doing, their arguments supported the decision reached irrespective of how the adolescents reported or what impression they made. In brief this thesis can be said to point to a legal dilemma when law on paper is applied in practice as each unique adolescent must be recognized by the authorities as fitting the administrative category ‘victim’. When put into practice, categories are rarely neat and clear hence such categorizing becomes a phenomenon negotiated in interaction. Also, this legal context sets up limits and possibilities for the adolescents’ agency and this too can be said to have a bearing on if she is, or is not, constructed as a victim. In short, this thesis shows certain conditions of victimhood. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Submitted.</p><p>Forskningsfinansiär: Brottsoffermyndigheten genom Brottsofferfonden.</p> / Människohandel/koppleri med barn och unga för sexuella ändamål Vad går att lära av rättsväsendet och brottsoffrens erfarenheter?

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Det senaste året har flertalet våldtäktsmål fått stor uppmärksamhet i media. I mars 2014 startade tidningen Metro #NEJÄRNEJ - kampanjen som granskar hur polisen och domstolar hanterar våldtäktsfall. Denna kampanj består av en serie artiklar som uppmärksammar domar där män frias från misstankarna om våldtäkt. Kvinnans trovärdighet ifrågasätts, deras samtycke misstolkas och ord står mot ord. En konsekvens av detta resulterade i att det blev allt svårare för kvinnor att bevisa inför rätten att det de hade blivit utsatta för var en våldtäkts handling. Vårt mål i denna studie är att söka förståelse för hur tingsrätten motiverar sina friande domar. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa vilken diskurs som konstrueras genom friande våldtäktsdomar utifrån ett genusperspektiv. Syftet uppnås genom att undersöka de subjektiva rekvisiten i beslutsskäl som ligger till grund för friande våldtäktsdomar. Kritisk diskursanalys används som både metod och teori som behandlar diskursiva mönster i domstolsbeslut i friande våldtäktsmål. I den här studien har vi analyserat fem texter i form av domar från svensk tingsrätt. Studien visar att tingsrätten i sina bedömningar utgår ifrån olika diskursiva och sociala praktiker. Dessa diskurser är kopplade till det så kallade genuskontraktet med bestämda föreställningar, där män definierar hur kvinnor ska vara i olika sammanhang; denna diskurs ser kvinnan som "det ideala offret" och säger hur kvinnor ska bete sig inför, under och efter att kvinnor ha blivit utsatta för våldtäkt. Ett hård draget exempel kring de bestämda föreställningarna är om kvinnor bär korta kjolar kan detta ses som en inbjudan till att bli våldtagna. Vidare handlar och hävdar de sexologiska teorier som att kvinnor kan frivilligt acceptera en viss grad av våld. Efter att ha genomfört vår undersökning anser vi att tingsrätten inte bara konstruerar diskurser om vad som är normalt vid ett våldtäktsbrott, utan även avspeglar rådande maktförhållanden mellan det manliga respektive kvinnliga könet och definierar hur människor ska bete sig i detta sammanhang. / This past year, the media has been giving a major attention to exculpatory rape cases. In March 2014 the newspaper Metro started the # NEJÄRNEJ – campaign that examines how the police and courts handle rape cases. This campaign consists of a series of articles commemorating the judgments of the men cleared of allegations of rape. The woman's credibility is questioned; their consent is being misinterpreted and when word stands against word, men’s word tends to weight more. One consequence of this was that it became increasingly difficult for women to prove in court that it was indeed rape. Our ambition for this study is to seek understanding of how the district court justifies its guilty sentences. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the discourse constructed by exculpatory rape sentences from a gender perspective. We aim to achieve the purpose by investigating the subjective criterions of the decision in the evaluation process. Critical discourse analysis is used both as method but also as theory and deals with discursive patterns in the court's decision in acquitting rape cases. In this study, we analyze five texts in the form of sentences of the Swedish district court. The study shows that the district court bases on different discursive and social practices in the evaluation process. These discourses are linked to the so-called gender contract with certain ideas where men define how women should be in different contexts; this discourse sees the woman as the "ideal victim" and says how women should behave before, during and after the women have been victims of rape. An example around the determined performances is about women wearing short skirts and how that can be seen as an invitation to be raped. Further claim the sexological theories that women may voluntarily accept a certain degree of violence. After conducting our investigation, we believe that the district court not only construct discourses about what is normal at a rape crime but also reflects power relationships between the male and female gender and defines how people should behave in this context.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is found to occur in alarming proportions worldwide. In South Africa, children represent almost half of the victims of known sexual abuse, and this is becoming a great concern, even being described as a silent epidemic. This alarming fact as well as the researcher’s experiences as a social worker in this field, resulted in her reviewing literature, in order to gain further insight into the current situation in South Africa. It was discovered that the number of successful CSA court cases reported to the Childline Western Cape centres, was significantly low, and that numerous complaints were being received by her colleagues at Childline from caregivers, regarding their dissatisfaction with the judicial system after reporting CSA. This dissertation therefore serves as a qualitative exploration of caregivers’ experiences of the South African judicial system after CSA has been reported. For the purpose of this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative research design so as to thoroughly describe the caregivers’ experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants to gain rich descriptions of their experiences in this area. Three main themes that emerged through the content analysis were: the experiences with officials from the SAPS as part of the judicial system; the experiences with regard to social service delivery; and the experiences with the court and personnel as part of the judicial system. Several conclusions were drawn. The first was that there were both positive and negative experiences with officials from SAPS. A further conclusion was that the lack of knowledge about procedures needing to be followed in cases of CSA, as well as the uncertainty shown by some SAPS officials with regard to how to go about dealing with child victims of sexual abuse, gave some participants the impression that SAPS officials lack adequate training in this regard The researcher concluded from the empirical findings and the literature that there is a general sense that CSA investigations are poorly conducted. Another conclusion was that literature on statutory social service delivery in South Africa and the evaluation thereof seemed sparse. However, from the empirical findings regarding the participants’ descriptions, their experiences, particularly with statutory social workers, were negative. Finally, the researcher concluded that though literature indicated that several changes had been made in the judicial system so as to better deal with child victims of sexual abuse, the experiences of the participants indicated that challenges are still being experienced. The empirical findings indicated that caregivers of child victims of sexual abuse and their children had experienced great frustration when dealing with the judicial system after CSA had been reported. These frustrations were due to the investigation of CSA cases, the court process, and the lack of communication from prosecutors and other professionals in the judicial system. / Thesis (MSW)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.