Sökning: "the purchase of sex"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden the purchase of sex.
1. The Purchase of Sex : Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to explore sex buyers’ perceptions and experiences of purchasing sex, and to study how the purchase of sex is constructed as a social problem in Swedish social work practice. The empirical material consists of interviews with 30 men with experiences of purchasing sex and with ten social workers conducting counselling or outreach work with men who purchase sex. LÄS MER
2. Crime, punishment, and counselling – a study of the local judicial and social work application of prostitution policy in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the social construction of a purchase of a sexual service within the implementation of prostitution policy in Sweden and seeks to contribute to the current knowledge about how a purchase of a sexual service is regulated based on how the law and social work are locally implemented. The thesis consists of four papers based on two empirical studies, including legal documents concerning the enforcement of the Swedish Sex Purchase Act (Chapter 6 Section 11 of the Criminal Code), and interviews with professionals within social services providing counselling to individuals with the experience of purchasing sexual services. LÄS MER
3. Är sex arbete? Svensk och tysk prostitutionspolitik sedan 1970-talet
Sammanfattning : Towards the end of the twentieth century, both Germany and Sweden engaged in extensive discussions on prostitution – discussions that resulted in two very different prostitution policies. Whereas the purchase (but not the selling) of sexual favours was forbidden in Sweden, prostitution was made a legal profession in Germany. LÄS MER
4. Towards a tobacco-free generation. A study on the tobacco habits of adolescents: when, why and who?
Sammanfattning : Why adolescents are using tobacco is a large and complex issue. There are factors on society, group and individual levels that affect the youngsters. The norms and attitudes in their surrounding, as well as the tobacco habits of parents and friends, are important when it comes to affecting adolescents to start using tobacco or abstain from it. LÄS MER
5. Gender, Work, and Attitudes
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: The long term effect of own and spousal parental leave on mothers’ earnings We take advantage of the introduction of a Norwegian parental leave reform in 1993 to identify the causal effect of parental leave on mothers’ long-term earnings. The reform raised the total leave period by seven weeks, but reserved four weeks for the father. LÄS MER