Search for dissertations about: "stranger"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word stranger.

  2. 1. Offender Profiling in Cases of Swedish Stranger Rapes

    Author : Jelena Corovic; Sven Å. Christianson; Lars R. Bergman; C. Gabrielle Salfati; Pekka Santtila; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Offender profiling; criminal profiling; stranger rape; serial rapists; prediction; rape themes; crime scene behavior; offender characteristics; situational features; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : Swedish national statistics suggest that the number of reported stranger rapes is steadily increasing. Stranger rape is one of the most difficult types of crime for the police to investigate because there is no natural tie between the victim and offender. READ MORE

  4. 2. A stranger in my homeland : The politics of belonging among young people with Kurdish backgrounds in Sweden

    Author : Barzoo Eliassi; Masoud Kamali; Lena Sawyer; Paulina de los Reyes; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young people with Kurdish backgrounds; postcolonial theory; identity formation; belonging; citizenship; ethnic discrimination; gendered racism; Kurdish nationalism; social work; culturalization; strategies; resistance.; Social work; Socialt arbete; Socialt arbete;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines how young people with Kurdish backgrounds form their identity in Sweden with regards to processes of inclusion and exclusion. It also sheds light on the ways these young people deal with ethnic discrimination and racism. READ MORE

  5. 3. Reactions to novelties : Developmental aspects

    Author : Kerstin Andersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : The present thesis considers different aspects of infants' and children's reactions to novelties, that is, unfamiliar persons, objects, and situations. In Study I, the developmental phenomenon stranger wariness was investigated from a temperamental perspective. READ MORE

  6. 4. Social referencing in infancy

    Author : Gunilla Stenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : In a social referencing process, the infant uses interpretative information displayed by another person, often the infant's parent, to help determine how to handle novel events, persons, and objects. The prime aim of Study I was to examine natural infant-mother interaction behaviors in terms of social referencing, when 10-month-old infants encountered a stranger. READ MORE

  7. 5. Encountering, regulating and resisting different forms of children’s and young people’s mobile exclusion in urban public space

    Author : John Guy Perrem; Sofia Cele; David Jansson; Danielle van der Burgt; Lia Karsten; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Geography; Geografi;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on different forms of exclusion specifically related to the mobility of children in Japan by examining the role of their parents as gatekeepers and existing systems of protection and control as producers, regulators and organizers of their mobilities.Article I examines the everyday feelings of exclusion experienced by immigrant parents of preschool aged children in public park playgrounds in Tokyo. READ MORE