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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden victim status.
11. Suicide mortality in the South African context : exploring the role of social status and environmental circumstances
Sammanfattning : Suicide is a serious public health problem worldwide, but is differentially distributed across social groups and regions. The goal of this thesis, focusing on the post-apartheid transitional setting of South Africa, is to advance knowledge of the relationship between individual social status (race and sex), contextual factors and suicide mortality. LÄS MER
12. Offender Profiling in Cases of Swedish Stranger Rapes
Sammanfattning : Swedish national statistics suggest that the number of reported stranger rapes is steadily increasing. Stranger rape is one of the most difficult types of crime for the police to investigate because there is no natural tie between the victim and offender. LÄS MER
13. Child protection through an abuse-focused lens : Adolescent victimization and Swedish social services responses
Sammanfattning : Knowledge concerning the social services’ use of the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act 1990:52 (CYPA) is relatively scarce, especially when it comes to the protection of adolescents victimized by abuse. The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate and discuss different conceptualisations of abuse, adolescents’ agency regarding abuse, victimization and social intervention, and how abuse and adolescent victimization are responded to, primarily by the social services. LÄS MER
14. Justice needs a blindfold : Effects of defendants’ gender and attractiveness on judicial evaluation
Sammanfattning : Gender and appearance affect our judgments regarding an individual’s personality, profession, and morality, and create a reference frame within which to act toward that person. The main question of the present thesis is whether these kinds of stereotypical conceptions have implications for the judicial process: how professionals within the judicial process evaluate and judge a defendant, and how and what eyewitnesses remember. LÄS MER
15. Victims of War
Sammanfattning : In my thesis, I explore the moral status of different types of agents who suffer harm. I seek to determine whether these agents are victims of wrongful harm, that is, whether they had a right not to suffer harm. LÄS MER