Crime Prevention at Municipal Level: A qualitative study about municipal official’s experience of the implementation of the national crime prevention program “Tillsammans mot brott”
2021 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Background: In Sweden, organized crime has become more varied and cross-border which has led to change in the nature and the scope of organized crime. The national crime prevention program – Tillsammans mot brott (TMB) was presented by the Government of Sweden to increase security and prevent crime.
Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate how municipal officials experience barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of the national crime prevention program at local level.
Methods: A qualitative method was used to gain in-depth knowledge about the study aim. A purposive sampling method was used, and a semi-structed interviews were conducted with eight participants from eight different municipalities. An inductive content analysis was used, and an ecological framework was applied to analyze the collected data.
Result: The result showed that the municipality officials’ experience of barriers and facilitators regarding the implementing TMB could be divided into two categories; (i) internal work processes for implementing crime prevention initiatives, and (ii) external work direction within crime prevention collaboration.
Conclusion: A public health approach enables to tackle innovative and holistic the occurrence and consequences of crimes since it involves working evidence-based with a range of stakeholders to address the multicausal origins of crimes
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 35
Keywords [en]
Community development, Crime prevention, Municipal level, Policy implementation, Qualitative method
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55090OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-55090DiVA, id: diva2:1572120
Subject / course
Science of Public Health
Supervisors
Examiners
2021-06-282021-06-232021-06-28Bibliographically approved