Main objective
To learn more about the help offered to victims of violence, and to discuss and propose ways of thinking about an integral approach to the needs of those victims.
Method
1. Telephone interviews with employees in different services in three municipalities of different size, as well as with employees in a region of different municipalities that share an action plan for the work with people subject to violence.
2. Use of four different focus groups – two with employees from different services and two with people subject to different forms of violence – with the aim of discussing the participants’ experiences of the services given.
3. Interviews with employees of the Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority (BrOM) and with persons working in public services and NGO’s in Sweden, as well as studies of documents pertaining to BrOM and its activities.