<p>The aim of the study was to see how men and women taken into custody care byLVM were described in the sentences through a gender perspective. The aim wasalso to lay more focus on young substance abusers and see in which extent youngsubstance abusers are judged to institutional care through custody care by LVM.Through a documentary study of 77 LVM sentences in Småland in Sweden, theintention of the study was to see whether women and men are judged and treatedequally or if gender makes a difference and in which way the judgement is different?The questions are in witch extent men and women are judged to institutional carethrough custody care by LVM and how the social indication LVM 4 § 3 b) are usedin the sentences when it is younger men and women that are substance abusers. Thestudy also covered a survey about how women and men are described in the sentencethrough a gender perspective and more focus is laid on younger substance abusersunder 30 years old. The methodological approaches that were used in the study areboth qualitative and quantitative with focus on the qualitative method. The theorythat is used in this study is genus theory. The study shows that there are differencesbetween men and women in the sentences and women’s relations are more exposedthan men’s relations and that the women’s living situation is more described. Men’ssubstance abuse is more in focus and more described in details and their relations andliving situation are almost not mentioned at all. One of the results in the study is thatthere are a majority of addicted women that were taken into custody care by LVM 4§ in Kronoberg under 2007. The results of the study summarized shows that there aredifferences between the attitudes towards men and women that are substance abusersand how they are described in the sentences. I also found that younger women morelikely is taken into custody care by LVM 4 § 3 b) through the social indicationcomparing to the men.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hik-1416 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Kennedy, Jessica |
| Publisher | University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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