Search for dissertations about: "conceptions of law"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words conceptions of law.

  2. 11. "Socialt problem" eller "Som andra och i gemenskap med andra" : Föreställningar om människor med utvecklingsstörning

    Author : Kerstin Färm; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mental retardation; mental handicap; social construction of mental handicaps; institutionalization; integration-segregation of handicapped; discourse and mental handicaps; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The background of the present study is an interest in how human capacities and limitations have been perceived during the 20th century in Sweden. The empirical work concemes the discursive constitution of the needs and resources of people who have been considered mentally handicapped. READ MORE

  4. 12. Justice for children? : A socio-legal study on Colombia’s responses to children associated with armed violence

    Author : Tove Nyberg; Anita Heber; Janne Flyghed; Andy Aydın-Aitchison; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; criminalisation; victimology; youth justice; child rights; peacebuilding; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine how criminal justice policy practices arose and persist in light of the international victim-centred legal framework for children associated with armed groups. The study explores the gaps between how children are treated in law versus empirical practices of criminalisation in a particular domestic setting (Colombia), which has been riddled by internal armed conflict and hybrid forms of violence. READ MORE

  5. 13. Parents, Power, Poverty: On choice and responsibility on two parental communities

    Author : Kristina Alstam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parents; parenting; subjects; citizen-subjects; parental web community; internet; discourse; power; ideology; austerity; neo liberalism; class; contract theory;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores discourses about parenthood and subject ideals as they manifest in two Swedish parental web communities. The aim is to examine the perceived division of responsibility between the parents themselves and the institutions of the welfare state and furthermore to map out and deconstruct tensions between demands understood to be assigned to the parent and to society, respectively. READ MORE