Project information
Project manager at Linnaeus University
Johan Rosquist
Other project members
Stephanie Paillard-Borg, Swedish Red Cross University, Sweden (project manager)
Chato Rasoal, Södertörn University, Sweden
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Swedish Red Cross University and Södertörn University, Sweden
Timetable
The project will undergo an ethical review application during the summer of 2024; planned project start 1 October 2024
Subject
Criminology, police work (Department of Criminology and Police Work, Faculty of Social Sciences)
More about the project
The project aims to study female guardians of people involved in criminal networks. These women's voices, stories and health have been ignored in research, despite the fact that female family members are the most present, involved and engaged in the everyday life and upbringing of their young relatives. In this project, we are interested in studying these women’s health and experiences of being guardians of people who are involved in criminal networks.
We also want to examine the women's experiences and experiences in their contacts and dealings with public representatives of social services, the police, schools and health care agencies. The experiences of these employees’ contacts with these women will also be studied.
These different perspectives on the interaction between women and social support authorities are important to examine. The project fulfills a general societal interest by creating knowledge about a significant part of the family life of people involved in criminal networks. The research questions will be answered through structured and semi structured interviews.
Very few studies have examined this research area, while the issue of network crime and its consequences is growing rapidly in Swedish society. Therefore, research based on different perspectives is needed to study these related issues more closely.
The project is part of the research in the Centre for Police Research and Development research group.
