{"id":1034,"date":"2026-02-20T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundations.ac\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:31:28","slug":"youth-justice-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundations.ac\/sv\/youth-justice-in-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ungdomsr\u00e4ttvisa i \u00f6verg\u00e5ngsfasen: Straffpopulism och nedg\u00e5ngen f\u00f6r nordisk exceptionalism i Sverige Hur man unders\u00f6ker en konstitutionell kultur?: Argument f\u00f6r fokusgruppsmetoden i j\u00e4mf\u00f6rande konstitutionella studier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Av Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi och Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez (2025)<\/em>\u00a0I E. Pearce &amp; G. Martin (red.)\u00a0<em>Forskningshandbok om ungdomskriminologi<\/em>. Elgar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstrakt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Den nordiska modellen f\u00f6r ungdomsr\u00e4tt \u00e4r h\u00f6gt ansedd globalt f\u00f6r sitt straffr\u00e4ttsliga v\u00e4lf\u00e4rdsperspektiv. Sveriges rehabiliterande attityd n\u00e4r det g\u00e4ller unga lag\u00f6vertr\u00e4dare har en l\u00e5ng historia. Sverige har ocks\u00e5 en mer aktuell historia av h\u00f6g nettoinvandring. En dokumenterad \u00f6kning av vissa typer av v\u00e5ldsbrott, vapenv\u00e5ld och g\u00e4ngaktivitet har utnyttjats f\u00f6r att marginalisera Sveriges v\u00e4xande invandrarbefolkning. \u00c5r 2022 avskaffade den svenska regeringen den automatiska straffreduktionen som unga vuxna f\u00e5r f\u00f6r allvarliga brott: den s\u00e5 kallade &quot;ungdomsrabatten&quot;. Detta kapitel argumenterar f\u00f6r att denna utveckling \u00e4r ett f\u00f6rs\u00f6k att hantera den nuvarande offentliga, politiska och mediala motreaktionen mot mildare behandling i b\u00e5de ungdomsr\u00e4ttspolitik och migrationspolitik mitt i r\u00e4dsla f\u00f6r brott som uppfattas vara kopplad till, s\u00e4rskilt, unga invandrarm\u00e4n. Under m\u00e5naderna efter detta avskaffande dominerade brottslighet och migration diskursen kring parlamentsvalet 2022, vilket resulterade i en h\u00f6gerlutande koalitionsregering. Borttagandet av &quot;ungdomsrabatten&quot; indikerar en straffv\u00e4ndning i ungdomsr\u00e4ttspolitiken, och valresultatet 2022 tyder p\u00e5 att en str\u00e4ngare straffr\u00e4ttslig attityd kvarst\u00e5r i det svenska samh\u00e4llet. Sammantaget ifr\u00e5gas\u00e4tter de tesen om nordisk straffr\u00e4ttslig exceptionalism. Detta kapitel analyserar dessa utvecklingar genom straffr\u00e4ttslig populism. Denna forskning bygger p\u00e5 kvalitativa fokusgruppsdata som samlats in i Sverige under 2021 och 2022, inom ramen f\u00f6r ett projekt finansierat av Europeiska forskningsr\u00e5det om &quot;Grundl\u00e4ggande institutionell auktoritet&quot;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nyckelord:<\/strong>\u00a0Konstitutionell kultur; J\u00e4mf\u00f6rande konstitutionella metoder; Kvalitativa metoder; Sociologisk konstitutionalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00e4nk till hela artikeln finns&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elgaronline.com\/edcollbook\/book\/9781035300754\/9781035300754.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">h\u00e4r<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Orlaith\u00a0Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez (2025)\u00a0In E. Pearce &amp; G. Martin (Eds.)\u00a0Research Handbook on Youth Criminology. 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