Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter
Abstract Cooperation between authorities is a central part of present-day crime prevention in Sweden. At the same time, the idea of cooperation has an extensive heritage within Swedish welfare policy. The purpose of this article is to trace the trajectory of crime prevention and in particular the id...
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De Nordiske Kriminalistforeninger
2019-03-01
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Cooperation between authorities is a central part of present-day crime prevention in Sweden. At the same time, the idea of cooperation has an extensive heritage within Swedish welfare policy. The purpose of this article is to trace the trajectory of crime prevention and in particular the idea of cooperation as a crime policy solution. Dating back to the post-war decades, cooperation between authorities in an effort to tackle youth crime has also been in line with David Garland’s concept of penal welfarism. While Garland mainly focuses on penal institutions and penal law rather than prevention, cooperation in Sweden shares several characteristics with penal welfarism such as the optimistic belief in expert rule and individualized treatment. The professional expertise that colonized the field of criminal justice was an equally prominent feature of how schools would prevent crime. Against this background I also discuss whether or not the concept of the preventive turn is applicable to the trajectory of crime prevention in Sweden. My conclusion is that the development of crime prevention is best understood as a continuous process dating back to the post-war era’s focus on youth crime, as opposed to a break. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-844ed45bd6ab431ea190ac7c512543612025-01-08T07:29:38ZdanDe Nordiske KriminalistforeningerNordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab2446-30512019-03-011061829210.7146/ntfk.v106i1.124731117965Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötterPaula WahlgrenAbstract Cooperation between authorities is a central part of present-day crime prevention in Sweden. At the same time, the idea of cooperation has an extensive heritage within Swedish welfare policy. The purpose of this article is to trace the trajectory of crime prevention and in particular the idea of cooperation as a crime policy solution. Dating back to the post-war decades, cooperation between authorities in an effort to tackle youth crime has also been in line with David Garland’s concept of penal welfarism. While Garland mainly focuses on penal institutions and penal law rather than prevention, cooperation in Sweden shares several characteristics with penal welfarism such as the optimistic belief in expert rule and individualized treatment. The professional expertise that colonized the field of criminal justice was an equally prominent feature of how schools would prevent crime. Against this background I also discuss whether or not the concept of the preventive turn is applicable to the trajectory of crime prevention in Sweden. My conclusion is that the development of crime prevention is best understood as a continuous process dating back to the post-war era’s focus on youth crime, as opposed to a break.https://tidsskrift.dk/NTfK/article/view/124731 |
| spellingShingle | Paula Wahlgren Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab |
| title | Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter |
| title_full | Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter |
| title_fullStr | Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter |
| title_short | Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter |
| title_sort | brottsprevention i straffvalfardspolitikens tid samverkanstankens historiska rotter |
| url | https://tidsskrift.dk/NTfK/article/view/124731 |
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