Drawing from a nationally representative survey (n = 6,611), this article analyses the prevalence of men's economic abuse toward women in Sweden. Economic abuse is still a relatively marginalized area of research but is increasingly recognized as a distinct type of intimate partner violence. A few Swedish studies have specifically focused on economic abuse, yet none of which with a quantitative approach. A main finding is that motherhood significantly increases the risk of exposure. Furthermore, women report economic abuse from expartners (25%) to a much greater extent than from current partners (8%).

This chapter explores continuities and variations between different framings and practices concerning manifestations of violence in three partly separated, yet related areas, of policy and practice. Three areas of particular relevance for children and young people are focused on here: (1) universal violence prevention work with young people at school; (2) legal reforms and social work aiming at counteracting violence in the name of honour; and (3) contact arrangements between children and abusive fathers post separation. The chapter uses Sweden as its case, where the current policies on violence against women, children and young people can, on an overarching level, be described as in a state of ideological struggle between feminism, nationalism and neoliberalism. A key argument, which applies to all manifestations of violence, is that multiple types of inequalities interact and are relevant on several levels. The outcomes of these variations in framing and handling of violence and abuse are contradictory. The chapter picks up these variations and struggles and uses them to inform the discussion on the interrelations of different forms of gendered violence.

Många ungas möjligheter att utforska gemenskaper och identiteter, utbilda sig, skapa och sprida sin musik och sina ord, är svindlande i jämförelse med tidigare generationers. Samtidigt präglas ungas liv och vuxenblivande av samspelande ojämlikheter. Klimatkrisen innebär att ålder som maktordning ställs på sin spets.

I denna bok tas bland annat aktivism, brottsutsatthet, gängkriminalitet, berättelser om diagnoser, rasism och politisk subjektivitet i stad, landsbygd, fysiskt och på nätet upp. Den introducerar kritiska ungdomsstudier och kan användas som kurslitteratur i ämnen som barn- och ungdomsvetenskap, socialt arbete och sociologi samt av yrkesverksamma som möter unga i sitt arbete.

The aim of this paper is to analyse approaches to issues of risk, responsibility and representations of violence in women social workers' conversations with alleged or confirmed violent fathers. The study adds to a growing body of research on agencies' handling of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of separation. Empirically, the study draws from 12 structured, audio recorded and transcribed interviews with support-seeking and divorced fathers, from five municipalities in Sweden, conducted as part of a cooperation project in which a risk-detection method (Family Law Detection Of Overall Risk Screen [FL-DOORS]) was also tested. The results suggest a tension between different professional tasks. To validate information on IPV, detect risk and enhance a child perspective competes with other professional projects, most obviously with promoting cooperation between parents. The study confirms previous research, which demonstrates unique challenges facing women social workers and counsellors when working with men as perpetrators. In conclusion, the paper concurs with the call for a focus on responsibility and on safe parenting in professional conversations with allegedly or confirmed abusive fathers. 

Drawing from an ethnographic evaluation of the American violence prevention program Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), the present paper aims to explore 1) The participating girls’ views of classroom culture and sense of safety, and; 2) Strategies for and obstacles to creating a transformative space for conversations about sexualized violence in three schools with young people aged 12–18 in Sweden. The material analysed in this paper consists of transcripts from video observations and field notes from all sessions in three classes and from group and individual interviews with participants. The paper contributes to critical research on violence in a broad sense, including its prevention, and on anti-oppressive education. In conclusion, we stress the importance of competence, commitment and preparing for precarity, when involving young people. Addressing boys and men as allies in violence prevention must be balanced with a critical feminist understanding of the realities of violence, including sensitivity both to the needs of the group and of individual possibly victimized participants.

Research has established that the economic hardship caused by intimate partner violence (IPV), including economic abuse, is an important obstacle impeding women from leaving a violent partner. Furthermore, economic violence typically continues post‐separation, also when other forms of abuse have ended. IPV—typically, men’s violence against women—is an issue of direct concern for children, even if the violent behaviour is not directed towards the child. A growing body of research has documented detrimental effects on children’s health, well‐being, and cognitive development when exposed to IPV/domestic abuse. In recent decades, research has also explored children’s perspectives and strategies to cope with being exposed to violence in families. Economic abuse, however, is a form of violence that is seldom studied from a child’s perspective. This article aims to explore existing knowledge on economic abuse from child and youth perspectives, drawing from childhood studies, interdisciplinary violence studies, critical social work, and social policy studies. The research review is divided as follows: (a) findings on children’s direct and indirect victimisation of economic abuse; (b) findings on economic abuse in young people’s intimate relationships and the context of honour‐related violence; and (c) findings on economic abuse concerning parenting, with discussions on possible implications for dependent children. Suggestions for further research are put forward.

This article explores how young people in Sweden talk about and understand violence, with a particular emphasis on how violence, gender, space and time are co-constructed in this discourse. We found that young people display an ambivalent relation to violence reinforcing several contradictory discourses of violence. Young people employ various understandings that place violence differently in time (ongoing vs. past) and space (distant/absent vs. close/present). They discursively construct the school as a non-violent space while considering digital spaces to be violent. Yet, they still find violence as occurring at different places and times at school. These ‘discursive manoeuvres’ highlight how talk of violence territorialises and re-territorialises places as ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ and takes part in the gendered spatial regulation of young people’s lives. By specifically analysing time and space in young people’s discourse on violence, the article contributes to research on their perspectives on gendered violence. 

Rapporten presenterar resultat från en utvärdering av de två versioner av det amerikanska våldsförebyggande programmet Mentors in Violence Prevention(MVP) som implementerats i en svensk kontext. Syftet med utvärderingen har varit att undersöka MVP:s genomförbarhet,organisatoriska förutsättningar och påverkan. För att uppnå detta syfte har vi använt såväl kvalitativa som kvantitativa metoder. Fältarbetet pågick 2019–2020. Studien har gjorts på uppdrag av Sveriges kommuner och regioner och har godkänts av Etikprövningsmyndigheten.