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The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between poverty and crime, and what role poverty plays in relation to traditional crime from the perspective of ex-criminals. Eight semi-structured life story interviews were conducted in the southern county of Skane, with recently desisted and rehabilitated men. The age span was broad, ranging from 32 to 63 years of age. All interviewee

Aim: This study investigated the relationship between sexual debut at the age of 15 years of age and psychological health, difficult life experiences and sexual risk taking behaviour. Methods: A sample of 77 Swedish 15 year old students completed a survey about sexuality, psychological health and difficult life experiences. Results: Those who had their sexual debut at 15 years of age or younger ha

Costa Rica and Argentina are two countries that form part of the vast region called Latin America. These two countries differ significantly in levels of corruption according to Transparency Internationals annual index of corruption globally. Why is this so and why are certain countries more corrupt than others? This overarching question has inspired this thesis. The study more specifically aims to

Ontological security has for the last ten years emerged as a fruitful analytical tool to construe political movement by understanding the individual subject as in the need for a coherent and secure self-identity. Three articles with different views on how the individual subject is understood has recently been published. They criticise common assumptions within the field of ontological security. T

This paper explores the reason why young adults choose to talk about their psychological health and wellbeing on the video-sharing website, YouTube. The study was carried out by six semi-structured interviews with six different ‘YouTubers’ (meaning people who have their own channel and upload videos to the website). To qualify for the study the respondents had to have at least 5000 subscribers to

In September 2003, a popular vote was held in Sweden with the question whether Sweden should or should not enter the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the debate with articles retrieved from a specific period, which was published within two weeks before the popular vote. The articles are retrieved from the Swedish newspaper ‘Svenska dagbladet’.

Sedan 2008 har en industriell och global kris drabbat telekomindustrin. Företag har slagits ut alternativt drabbats av vikande lönsamhet. Enligt teorin om tillväxtcykeln har halvledarindustrin, vilken telekomindustrin är en viktig del av, tidigare agerat som drivkraft för stora delar av övrig industri. Den omfattande finansiella och strukturella kris vi nu upplever har med andra ord sitt ursprung

Vårt syfte med detta arbete var att undersöka hur synen på ojämlikheter bland barn och unga ser ut idag och vi valde att göra detta genom att samla in information från verksamma inom barn- och välgörenhetsorganisationer. Vi ville undersöka hur de diskuterar ojämlikheter, deras konsekvenser och i vilka sammanhang de anser att de uppkommer. Vi intervjuade fem personer, från olika organisationer, och

A company is developing a new product for transporting temperature-sensitive liquids long distances. The new device will have an active cooling unit with very precise temperature regulation. This will increase the transportation time compared to conventional methods. This report will only concern the structural parts of the product, since development of the temperature control system has been done

Förekomsten av språkstörning är 7,4 procent hos barn i förskoleåldern och svårigheterna är ofta kvarstående, även om de kan ändra karaktär över tid. Språklig förmåga är avgörande för att uppnå målen i grundskolans läroplan och adekvat kompetens hos lärare kan därför ses som nödvändig för rätt bemötande och omhändertagande av barn med språkliga svårigheter. I utbildningsplanerna för lärarprogrammet

Mycket av den litteratur som finns inom området molnbaserade affärssystem beskriver de fördelar samt nackdelar små och medelstora företag får av att använda denna modell jämfört med ett lokalt. Bland annat säger leverantörerna att det finns stora pengar att spara på molnbaserade system medan kritikerna nämner exempelvis säkerhet som en nackdel. Med vår studie ville vi undersöka om de fördelar och

The aim of this study was to examine what factors ex-offenders consider has facilitate and prevent their turning points for leaving a criminal life. In addition, the purpose was also to investigate how ex-offenders experienced prison as a factor for re-entry in society. From those two perspectives of view we also wanted to ascertain if prison or factors that are non-legal are the most successful f

Prisutvecklingen på bostäder i Sverige har under lång tid varit en framgångssaga för säljare. Med låga räntor, stor efterfrågan och begränsat utbud har priserna stigit. Sedan hösten 2017 har en oro utvecklats på bostadsmarknaden. Priserna sjunker, efterfrågan minskar och byggföretag får svårare att sälja sina nyproducerade bostäder, vilket i förlängningen kan leda till minskad bostadsproduktion. DThe price development of housing in Sweden has long been a success story for sellers. With low interest rates, high demand and limited supply the prices have risen. Since the fall of 2017, the market uncertainty has grown. Prices are falling, demand decreases, and housing developers get harder to sell their newly produced homes, which in the long run can lead to reduced housing production. The pot

A criminal lifestyle from within The aim of this study was to create an understanding of earlier offenders. Specifically the aim has been to examine the life of offenders from their childhood to today on how they see themselves on their earlier criminal life. The selection of people who participated in the study was people who previously had a criminal lifestyle. We have taken a qualitative appro

The aim of this study was to investigate what engages social workers working with social assistance and how this commitment is expressed in their everyday work. Furthermore, the focus of the study was to investigate whether conflict arises when commitment is practised in the context of organizational conditions and political structures in society. Our target group consisted of five social workers

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur unga kvinnor, eller tjejer som jag valt att kalla dem, som studerar på gymnasiets estetiska program upplever sin vardag inom musiken. Musikbranschen är en ojämställd värld och syftet med denna studie är att identifiera skillnader och orättvisor för att musiklärare ska få större möjligheter att arbeta jämställt. Detta jämställdhetsarbete kan bidra till attThe aim of this study is to investigate how young females, or girls as I have choosen to call them, who study at the aesthetic program of high school, experience their everyday lives. The music industry is not equal and the purpose of this study is to identify the differences and injustice, in order to give the music teachers possibilities to work with equality. The work with equality can contribu

In the later Middle Ages there was a vivid activity of preaching at the Abbey of Vadstena. Apart from the ordinary Sunday preaching at High Mass, or in connection to it, there were a number of feasts due to the saints. At heart of the medieval pastoral theology was The Way of Salvation and the conundrum was how to make people understand how to correct their living in order to get into Heaven as qu

Syfte med uppsatsen är att jämföra kvantitativt förvaltade aktiefonder med traditionellt förvaltade aktiefonder under en 10-årsperiod, 2007–2017, samt under exceptionella chocker i form av upp- eller nedgång från 5 % i MSCI World Index. Jämförelsen gjordes med hjälp av riskjusterad avkastning i form av Sortino-kvot, Sharpe-kvot, informationskvot samt genom en regression. Endast en Sortino-maximeraThe purpose of this thesis is to compare quantitative management of stock-funds versus traditional management as a fundamental strategy, for a period of 10-years between 2007- 2017. Our essay has a special focus towards extreme market-conditions, which we defined as deviations of 5% in the MSCI World Index. Our analysis was made through the comparison of risk-adjusted measures as Sortino ratio, Sh