Socialsekreteraren har ordet! En studie av hur ungdomar beskrivs
i socialtjänstens yttranden avseende unga lagöverträdare.
Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay was to examine how
youths are described in certain written statements that are
produced by the social services. The statements that this study
has focused on, are those written with the purpose of serving
the court with suggestions of treatment-measures when a person
between 15 and 18 is suspected of having committed a crime. The
main issues were: How is the content in these statements
described and what do these descriptions tell the reader? Do the
images of youths in the statements differ, depending on the
degree of intervention for the suggested treatment-measure? The
essay is based on a qualitative content-analysis of 50
statements and the material has been analysed from a social-
constructive theoretical perspective. The study shows that the
youths in the statements are described through descriptions that
reinforces a positive or a negative im