Återfall i kriminalitet efter fängelse - En jämförande fallstudie mellan Sverige och Norge

Abstract

An ongoing discussion about how to prevent crimes is always a hot topic. If harsher punishment leads to less relaps or whether a larger part of socializations leads to a reduced criminality. To enlighten this subject this essay is going to explore different factors that affects the amount of relaps after serving time in prison in Sweden and Norway. The more precise subject of the essay is why Norway´s statistics is so much better when it comes to relaps after prison, than Sweden´s. To examine why this scenario exists, six factors were isolated and analyzed in both countries to see if there is any differences between them. To choose which factors that´s going to be in the essay, international research was used to isolate the ones with the biggest impact. The factors that is included in the essay is psyciatrical evaluation, mediation, prison, crimetype, riskfactors (unemployment, employment and education) and parole. To analyze these factors information is extracted from both countries and then compiled to identify similarities and differences. To get at wider perspective a preventionmodell is applied on both countries to see if they strive towards control or socialization. In the conclusion of the essay the main findnings is that there is a big differense between the countries when it comes to prisonsystem and also when it comes to employment and social help after a served sentence. This factors constitutes a part of why the discrepancy between Sweden and Norway is so big, when it comes to relaps after prison.