Search for dissertations about: "Young offenders"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Young offenders.

  2. 16. Adverse life events, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality : epidemiological studies of socioeconomic inequalities from a life course perspective

    Author : Emma Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The overall aim with this dissertation was to increase the knowledge on the association between adverse life events, and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the role of socioeconomic position from a life course perspective. In Study I we examined the association between socioeconomic position, adverse childhood experiences, and psychotropic medication in young adulthood, using parental educational level as measure of socioeconomic position. READ MORE

  4. 17. Essays on Inequality and Social Policy : Education, Crime and Health

    Author : Susan Niknami; Eskil Wadensjö; Anders Stenberg; Miles Corak; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Alcohol laws; Crime; Delinquency; Education; Health; Immigrants; Income inequality; Intergenerational Transmission; Relative Income Differences; Substance use; Quasi-experiment; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four empirical essays. The first essay evaluates the impact on crime of a large scale experimental scheme in which all state monopoly alcohol stores in selected Swedish counties kept open on Saturdays. We show that the experiment significantly raised both alcohol sales and crime. READ MORE

  5. 18. Short- and Long-Term Influences of Education, Health Indicators, and Crime on Labor Market Outcomes : Five Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

    Author : Elisabeth Lång; Ali M. Ahmed; Judy Rich; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; health indicators; crime; labor market outcomes; family background; twins; field experiments;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how several individual characteristics, namely education (years of schooling), health indicators (height, weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise), criminal behavior, and crime victimization, influence labor market outcomes in the short and long run. The first part of the thesis consists of three studies in which I adopt a within-twin-pair difference approach to analyze how education, health indicators, and earnings are associated with each other over the life cycle. READ MORE

  6. 19. Epidemiological studies of suicide : classification bias, drug use, and social circumstances

    Author : Charlotte Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Despite the decline in suicide rates in Sweden during the past decades, suicide still constitutes a severe public health problem and is a cause of death that to a large extent could be prevented. In 2008 the Swedish Parliament ratified the Swedish government’s suggestion of a ‘Vision Zero’ policy for suicide. READ MORE

  7. 20. Fear of violence and gendered power relations : Responses to threat in public space in Sweden

    Author : Linda Sandberg; Aina Tollefsen; Malin Rönnblom; Rachel Pain; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : The geography of fear; gender relations; fear of violence; whiteness; gender equality; masculinity; femininity; narrative analysis; Sweden; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : Several cases of single repeat offenders in urban space have raised public concern in Sweden during recent decades. Few studies have been conducted on consequences of the kind of ‘hostage situations’ that emerge when one individual offender causes fear and affects a larger group of people in a specific place. READ MORE