Samverkan mellan Socialtjänstens socialarbetare och polisen i det förebyggande arbetet : Utmaningar och framgångsfaktorer inom den tvärprofessionella samverkan

This study is about investigating how police and social workers from the social services work together to prevent socially destructive behaviors such as crime and its consequences. The focus of the study is limited to a specific, geographical area, where both a vulnerable and a particularly vulnerable area are represented. The emphasis of the study is on the challenges and success factors regarding collaboration between mainly the police and social services, reflections on the vulnerable / particulalry vulnerable areas and its impact on the operational work. The issues that have been addressed have included how the police and social services work to prevent crime in the area, what challenges there are regarding collaboration in preventive work och how the police and social services feel that their efforts affect crime in the area. The study is conducted based on a qualitative method where six interviews have been conducted, two with the police and four with the social services. The results have been analyzed through previous research as well as the selected theories of interaction theory and systemms theory. The results of the survey show that both social services and the police describe that secrecy legislation can be an obstacle to good cooperation, that it is also important to understand each others´s professional roles. Furthermore, the results show that the participants in the study feel that their preventive work has a good impact in a positive direction in terms of crime in the area. Keywords: Collaboration, crime, particularly, vulnerable, police, preventive, social service, vulnerabl