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Risk assessments within outreach social work cannot be understood solely as the application of predefined criteria or standardized tools. Rather, they are shaped through social interaction, professional interpretation and contextual understanding. This study examines how risk assessments are formed in social field workers’ outreach work with children and young people in the municipality of Landskr
This qualitative study aims to analyze how a smaller municipality in Sweden works on crime prevention where the recruitment of children into gang crime is in focus, due to the large increase in the recruitment of children and young people. The study is based on semistructured interviews of people who work within the municipality regarding crime prevention work. The study is also based on a content
This study examines how provocative investigative methods in cases of child sexual abuse are presented, negotiated and justified across different contexts, with particular focus on institutional texts and material produced by the non-institutional actor Dumpen. The aim is to analyze how such methods are justified, how risks are managed, and how arguments and problem representations compare across
This study aims to examine how military protective security guards (Swedish: militär skyddsvakt) describe the ways in which their discretion is shaped and operationalized in practice. Considering the current security context, the Swedish law Skyddslagen (2010:305) constitutes a central component of Sweden's protective security system. Skyddslagen provides the legalistic framework within which
The purpose of this study is to examine how social workers perceive their discretion in cases involving intimate partner violence, particularly in relation to the Social Service Act (2025:400) which places increased emphasis on preventive work. To achieve this, the study explores the factors influencing professional discretion and how organizational conditions affect the preventive work. This stud
This academic paper explores the phenomena of digital recruitment of minors for criminal purposes. The aim is to clarify which factors facilitate the recruitment of minors, and why criminal actors choose to use digital platforms for recruitment, instead of person to person recruitment. Social bond theory by Travis Hirschi, as well as Routine activity theory has been used to analyze the individual
Swedish law states that all children are entitled to attend school. Despite this, studies indicate shortcomings in the implementation of equal educational opportunities for every child. Since the Swedish police department classifies certain areas as “vulnerable”, the question arises whether students’ rights to equal educational opportunities might be affected by such classifications. Consequently,
Liquid pouring is a critical, high-precision task in laboratory automation and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Existing imitation learning methods struggle with the high demands for accuracy and robustness in contact-rich pouring tasks. This thesis presents an extension of the diffusion policy framework by integrating force feedback for a dual-arm robot pouring approach. Unlike traditional methods,
Abstract in French Ce volume de PERLES est consacré à une comparaison de l’acquisition et de la production de la morphologie flexionnelle à travers de différents corpus.
This paper explores the role of boundary objects in the translation and transformation process of a sustainability concept-Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)-into a firm's business practices. The qualitative case study describes the experience where a Japanese company successfully implemented SDGs and generated product innovations through its learning process. The findings of the study identi
This special publication demonstrates that the success of Swedish companies in the face of powerful global brands such as Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Burger King is not simply a matter of consumer nationalism or cultural resistance, but rather the result of the interaction between culture, institutions, and business strategy. Although Sweden appeared to be an ideal market for Starbucks, the company
In this chapter, we explore the relationship between business ethics and faith. We suggest that faith in business ethics predominantly plays the role of the therapeu-tic: It soothes the real functioning of business with various idealized conceptions of it. Unfolding this argument, we begin the chapter by showing how business ethics is largely motivated by a now-shattered faith in the capitalist en
This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for three months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high-frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources. Our findings suggest that the bank strike was associated with a shortfall in economic activity that punctuated a decade of
High-spin states in 60Cu are investigated on the basis of reaction-channel-selected 𝛾-ray spectroscopy. Data stem from three experiments that used the same fusion-evaporation reaction at similar beam energies. The Gammasphere 𝛾-ray spectrometer was combined with the Microball CsI(Tl) detector array and sets of liquid-scintillator neutron detectors which allowed us to identify and tag on evaporat
Drawing on the notion of imagined futures, the special issue “Retail Imagination” explores emerging transformations in the retail sector. The special issue includes seven paper presented at the 9th Nordic Retail and Wholesale conference (NRWC) 2024. In this editorial, the concept of “Retail imagination” is discussed, the main content of the selected papers is outlined, and key dimensions for imagi
