In this thesis we are going to look into women who have taken the life of one or several children, there are five different women and five different crimes that have been studied. There are three cases from Sweden and two cases from England, between the years 1990 to 2020. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether there is something in the women's environment that may have caused them to commit criminal acts and their reasoning. The research questions this thesis aims to answer are the following:’How do women who took the lives of children reason about their actions? and ‘Has the environment had any influence on the women until the act was committed?’ The material that has been used is different preliminary investigation reports and it has been read through and analyzed with a systematizing text analysis method. The two theories applied in this study are situational action theory and the theory of social pressure and the third is not a theory, but a theoretically anchored concept which is the motherhood ideal. The most important result in this thesis is that it has been a combination of the social environment, motherhood ideal and personal aspects that led women to commit crimes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128796 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Rosendal, Linnea, Friberg, Nova |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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