This paper is written in a collaboration with the Swedish Police in Landskrona.Based on their request to know more about the decreasing crime rates inLandskrona the purpose of the study is to highlight and create knowledge aboutpossible explanations for these changes. The study consists of semi-structuredinterviews with different stakeholders from the Police, Municipality and theCounty Administrative Board. These individuals’ perceptions are used in order todiscover what is happening in Landskrona. During the examined ten-year period ithas been possible to distinguish a downward trend in terms of reported crimes inLandskrona. The result shows several possible explanations to this trend but, themost consistent findings are; effective collaboration mainly between the Policeand the municipality, various investments toward youths both social andeducational and huge investments in urban development. These investments areused as possible explanations for the changes in reported crime in Landskrona andperceived to play a pivotal role when it comes to understand the decreasing crimerates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-25619 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Gustafsson, Hanna |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), Malmö universitet/Hälsa och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| 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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