Publications
A conscious and structured piece of work on media issues has meant that social services in Göteborg are more often heard in the public dialogue.
It has also improved citizens´ opportunities of acquiring a more balanced and more profound image of reality.
In Gothenburg City, we have a net¬work that deals with methodology issues on how the goal of including the child’s perspective can be achieved within our various areas
of responsibility. Representatives from the city districts and administrative departments participate in the network by sharing their perspectives.
In 2010, the network and forum for the child’s perspective, were launched at a conference with the theme, “Children need space”. The results of the experience and knowledge
that were exchanged have been compiled in this document. We have attempted to collect and document a portion of the knowledge that resulted from this collaboration.
You will find thoughts and ideas about the child’s perspective from a variety of perspectives.
Security and well-being have a great deal to do with participation, being able to influence events and knowing that you are being listened to.
This is what the safety and security inspection tours are about. Being able to make use of information from as many different sources as possible
in order to promote the positive community life of the city. Change through dialogue.Safety tours are being conducted at many different places in Sweden,
and also in other countries nowadays. In 2005 The National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) and Tryggare och MänskligareGöteborg decided together to
organise a national conference about what has been learned from these experiences.
Konference organised by City of Västerås and Brå – the National Council for Crime Prevention
This is a manual that explains how to arrange a neighbourhood security survey. By arranging neighbourhood security surveys,
you can help create enjoyable environments with opportunities for meeting people, as well as improve security. A neighbourhood security survey
may also inspire further involvement and participation. In order for the method to be a positive force, the survey needs to be well-prepared,
properly implemented and should be followed up. Step by step, this publication will show you how – before, during and after the survey.
This publication explains what a neighbourhood security survey is like and also points out some important things to think about.
By taking part in at neighbourhood security survey, you get to create secure and enjoyable surroundings and opportunities to meet other people in your area.
Björn Klarqvist is Professor Emeritus in Urban design and planning at Chalmers Universtiy of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden.
He is one of the most prominent authorities in Sweden in “building-oriented crime prevention”. His assessment of the work of the Göteborg Council
for Crime Prevention has an even wider perspective than his area of expertise. This book is first and foremost a description of measures implemented
and methods used in crime prevention work in Göteborg. It also contains insightful comments about what people in Sweden mean today when they use words
like “safety” and “security”, as well as ideas about democratic societies as the precondition for the safety and security of all. We cannot imagine
that if we just lock the door behind us we will be safe. That´s why safety and security are no simple matter.
The population of Sweden includes two million children. They are a group who, by virtue of their power of experimentation and wealth of ideas,
have the ability to lead society in new directions.
This of course assumes that children are involved when decisions of various kinds need to be made. Children´s right to participation is a much-discussed subject which
is not as simple as it might seem. What, for example, does that right mean, and why should children participate? And how can we go about creating the conditions for
that participation? Some of the answers can be found in this research overview compiled by PhD Monica Nordenfors. The book is thoughtprovoking and opens up new perspectives,
on both children and adults.
In the autumn of 1998 a terrible fire broke out at a discotheque in Gothenburg. 63 young people died. Hundreds were injured and traumatized.
In this book, six severely affected individuals talk about the night of the fire and their subsequent healing in the years that followed.
The adolescents were among a group of people with whom the Support Centre in Hisingen worked over a number of years. One important aspect of this work was that the survivors
should form their own pictures of what they had gone through. “Like Laying a Puzzle” became a metaphor that brought together staff and victims and laid down the foundations
of a unique collaborative process aiming to reassert meaning and control over the trauma that had torn lives to shreds.
After a group reunion ten years after the fire, an idea was put forward to make a retroactive assessment of our working process.
It seemed relevant to document shared experiences and make them accessible to others. As one of the young men affected by the fire said.
“What is the point of experience if it is not used to help others?”
This book is recommended for practioners in professional contact with survivors of traumatic experiences. It can also be used for training purposes.
Media researcher Gabriella Sandstig´s doctoral thesis is about what makes us feel insecure in public spaces. She has investigated how our fear is influenced by the media,
social factors, the physical environment and our own experiences. One of her conclusions is that people are made to feel secure by other people.
A safety and security walk is an important step forward for a more human town. You can help create the pre-requisites for interesting meetings,
friendly environments and safety and security in your city district. This publication shows you how to go about it, step by step – before, during and after the walk.
The Art of Being for Real opens up new paths and perspectives concerning the right of children and young people to self-expression. Young & Creative is an example of
young people having access to a place in which to meet and express themselves artistically. The setting for this was Röda Sten Art Centre in Gothenburg. While the meeting
between young people was a founding concept, the project also had certain pedagogically groundbreaking aspects in that it brought together two different professions –
social workers and art pedagogues.
In 2006 the artist Esther Shalev-Gerz created a relational art project in Bergsjön, Göteborg, Sweden.
The project was unique in its ability to unite very different people, with different cultural origins and
convictions around the idea of a Place of Art.
To be asked, to be allowed to express one´s opinion and to be listened to, are rights that all children and young people have. There is considerable and growing interest
in children´s right to participate, and a growing will to learn more and to apply children´s perspectives as well as the child perspective in various contexts.
In this book Tina Eliasson gives us an indepth picture of what the practice of participation involves – for both children and adults.
The council Tryggare och Mänskligare Göteborg and its secretariat have to a great extent, worked with questions which, in a wider sense than that of pure crime prevention,
affect people´s feelings of participation in family life, school, working life and social life. Other topics of interest have been urban environment and issues of city planning.
There has been no shortage of breadth or enthusiasm in the work, but how has it fitted together? PhD Thomas Jordan was invited to analyse the work. The result of his work is an insight,
not only into the fact that our activities do actually fit together, but it also provide greater insight into the nature of the insecurity that people experience in our time,
and the demands that arise on a democratic process of crime prevention and safety and security work providing long term results and not felt to be a one-sided reinforcement of society´s
different control apparatuses.
Can we measure security? And in that case, what is that we are measuring? Researcher Mariann Björkemarken has been analysing security studies –
and observes that security is often synonymous with safety whilst other definitions of the concept easily get lost.
A closed-down recreation centre has become an activities building. A worn and unsafe gravel pitch has become a popular local sports ground.
But above all, the Majorna Youth Project has resulted in cooperation, collaboration and joint activities.
Instruction material and a silent film by elderly people
– for diversity and security.