Search for dissertations about: "penal legislation"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words penal legislation.

  2. 1. The Public's Sense of Justice in Sweden - a Smorgasbord of Opinions

    Author : Kristina Jerre; Henrik Tham; Felipe Estrada; Julian V. Roberts; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public’s sense of justice; public opinion; appropriate sentences; penal legislation; Sweden; Scandinavia; surveys; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : The public’s views on what constitute appropriate reactions to crime, have come to assume an increasingly central position in the crime policy rhetoric of western countries. In Sweden this manifests itself in recurrent referrals to the public’s sense of justice. READ MORE

  4. 2. On suicide in European countries : some theoretical, legal and historical views on suicide mortality and its concomitants

    Author : Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen; Stephen Platt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assisted suicide; comparative studies; cross-sectional studies; culture; Durkheim; Europe; history; law; modernization; Parsons; suicide; suicide rates; Sweden; theories; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The theme of this thesis is suicide mortality in its various aspects, seen from an international, European perspective. It questions the existence of social (structural) concomitants to suicide mortality and investigates attitudes towards and legislation concerning suicide, as well as some historical processes pertaining to their development. READ MORE