Vill vuxna veta vad barnen tycker? : En undersökning om hur barnets åsikt kommer fram och påverkar familjerättens bedömning och tingsrättens dom i vårdnads, boende- och umgängestvister
The main purpose of this essay was to study how the child's own view appeared in the office of family law investigations and in the following municipal court verdicts and if it had influenced the judgement and the verdict. We wanted to see if the child's age was important for the possibility to make oneself heard and if there had been changes overtime related to the consideration to the child's own view in investigations- and court context.

To obtain answers to the questions, we decided to execute a qualitative case study, which exclusively was based on document analyses. We selected to examine a middle-sized municipal in the southern part of Sweden. We concerned only for children in the age of 8-12 years, who was affected by a court verdict either 1999 or 2003.

Our study showed, among other things, that the majority of all children were interviewed. It also showed that the age of the children didn't affect the consideration the court took to the child's opinion. We compared the results from the two different years and found a striking change. It showed that the verdicts from the court from 2003 almost completely corresponded with the child's own view in almost all cases, while only the half of the verdicts from the court from 1999 corresponded with the child's view.
Barnets mening i LVU-processen
Ett initiativ till ett tvangsingripande enligt LVU medfor att barnet hamnar i en omfattande process med avgorande betydelse for dess framtid, men dar barnet sjalvt har begransad formaga att havda sina intressen. For en lagstiftning vars syfte ar att tillvarata barnets intressen ar de personer som utreder, presenterar och argumenterar for barnet centrala aktorer. Vilka medel anvander dessa aktorer for att definiera  barnets behov och intressen? I denna artikel diskuteras hur barnets intressen definieras av det offentliga bitradet och andra aktorer samt om barnet far uttrycka sin mening i tolv undersokta rattsfall.
Assessing sex offenders.
26 26 Unfortunately, the incidence of sexual assault has increased over the past decade, and the long-term management of sex offenders has been fervently debated in our society. In the United States, approximately 234,000 sexual offenders are under the custody of correctional agencies each day, and more than half are under conditional supervision in the community. Sexual victimization is routinely prosecuted, but sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism and are up to 10 times more likely to be re-arrested for another violent sexual assault than individuals convicted of other crimes. With state legislatures increasingly passing legislation to allow for the civil commitment of repeat sexual offenders to mental health facilities and the creation of sex offender registries, psychiatrists have found themselves thrust into this nexus of society and the legal system. Forensic psychiatrists are often asked to evaluate individuals accused or convicted of sexual offenses for a variety of purposes, including the assessment of dangerousness, risk for recidivism, involuntary commitment, inclusion in a state’s sex offender registry, competency, and criminal responsibility. Like most other forensic evaluations, the assessment of sexual offenders involves performing a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, reviewing available police reports and criminal history, and contacting available collateral sources of information to verify information provided by the defendant. In addition, the accurate assessment of individuals involved in sexual crimes requires a detailed sexual [ f o r e n s i c f i l e s ]