Torbjörn Forkby
Biographic Data
| ID | 6687152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torbjörn Forkby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torbjörn |
| FAMILY NAME | Forkby |
| SIGNATURE | FORKBY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5644-2455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Participation Put on Hold
Despite support from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), children’s actual influence on welfare policy remains inconsistent. This study investigates why children’s collective participation (CCP) failed in Swedish policy development for prevention, despite organisational openings, obligations, and opportunities. The policy development involved health care, social work, preschools, schools, and the police in an initiative inspired b…
Tension management and support when leaving a gang
Gangs are commonly presented in research as an attractive alternative for those who feel excluded and unrecognized in “ordinary” society. Gang life is volatile, however, and violence (open or suppressed) is more or less omnipresent. Exiting a gang seems to be motivated by both thoughts of a better life and disappointment in the gang's failure to meet hopes and expectations. Findings From an analysis of former gang members exit processes, this art…
Navigating multiple displacements
This article contributes to the understanding of how residents and social guides collaboratively navigate multiple forms of displacement within Municipal Service Centres (MSC) situated in marginalised communities in Sweden. Drawing on critical theories of the production space, the paper posits that social work can be understood as an emplacement practice in response to displacement from vital resources such as jobs, housing, and residence permits…
Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention
In Sweden, local municipalities, working in collaboration with the police, are assigned an important role in community-based crime prevention and the promotion of safer neighbourhoods/cities. The strategies adopted are supposed to be informed by the policies of national advisory bodies, which emphasize surveying the current situation, problem analyses, systematic planning of interventions and evaluation of efforts. This paper reports on a three-y…
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden
This article maps the emergence of a risk–gang nexus in the Swedish correctional field. Using the concept of penal layering, the article analyses the configuration of risk-based practices to manage gang affiliates in the context of Swedish prison and probation services. By introducing the notion interludes of penal layering, this article stresses the synchronic/diachronic opposition in penal change processes and furthers ongoing discussions of th…
In search of the beloved community
One element of the PARTISPACE study into spaces and styles of Youth Participation in eight European cities is presented in this article. Drawing on ethnographically informed studies of four sites in three cities, the paper analyses the ways in which young people construct and sustain alternatives to the policy-driven forms of participation, based on their yearning and aspiration for different relations than those found in ordinary life. We sugges…
Organisational exceptions as vehicles for change
Enhanced collaboration is among the most common strategies in Swedish crime prevention. This includes multi-agency, cross-professional work and also coordinated activities between public authorities and civil society, often in the framework of a partnership approach. The social services bear the main responsibility for setting up and facilitating this collaboration. In this article, two crime prevention programmes in Gothenburg are analysed toget…
Making sense of common sense
A distinguishing feature of S wedish child protection is the direct and indirect influence on decision‐making in individual cases by representatives appointed by their elected political parties. As members of local committees, they take the most interventionist and costly decisions themselves, informed by care proposals submitted by professional social workers. Other decisions are delegated to professional social workers. In direct decision‐makin…
Care for Sale
Market-oriented strategies have been introduced in child welfare in recent years. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyse the significance of two formal instruments that now regulate practice in child protection cases: the system of procurement in which general agreements about placement provision are reached and individual child protection investigations. The research questions were (i) How do procurement processes and gene…
Navigations between regulations and gut instinct
The decision to take a young person away from his or her family into out‐of‐home care and treatment is the most drastic intervention within the statutory powers bestowed upon social services. The results of reports on the quality of residential treatment reveal that state supervision has not proven to be a good substitute for parental care. In this paper we analyse the decision‐making process when young persons are placed in residential care. Foc…
Navigations between regulations and gut instinct
The decision to take a young person away from his or her family into out‐of‐home care and treatment is the most drastic intervention within the statutory powers bestowed upon social services. The results of reports on the quality of residential treatment reveal that state supervision has not proven to be a good substitute for parental care. In this paper we analyse the decision‐making process when young persons are placed in residential care. Foc…
Care for Sale
Market-oriented strategies have been introduced in child welfare in recent years. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyse the significance of two formal instruments that now regulate practice in child protection cases: the system of procurement in which general agreements about placement provision are reached and individual child protection investigations. The research questions were (i) How do procurement processes and gene…
Making sense of common sense
A distinguishing feature of S wedish child protection is the direct and indirect influence on decision‐making in individual cases by representatives appointed by their elected political parties. As members of local committees, they take the most interventionist and costly decisions themselves, informed by care proposals submitted by professional social workers. Other decisions are delegated to professional social workers. In direct decision‐makin…
In search of the beloved community
One element of the PARTISPACE study into spaces and styles of Youth Participation in eight European cities is presented in this article. Drawing on ethnographically informed studies of four sites in three cities, the paper analyses the ways in which young people construct and sustain alternatives to the policy-driven forms of participation, based on their yearning and aspiration for different relations than those found in ordinary life. We sugges…
Organisational exceptions as vehicles for change
Enhanced collaboration is among the most common strategies in Swedish crime prevention. This includes multi-agency, cross-professional work and also coordinated activities between public authorities and civil society, often in the framework of a partnership approach. The social services bear the main responsibility for setting up and facilitating this collaboration. In this article, two crime prevention programmes in Gothenburg are analysed toget…
Navigations between regulations and gut instinct
The decision to take a young person away from his or her family into out‐of‐home care and treatment is the most drastic intervention within the statutory powers bestowed upon social services. The results of reports on the quality of residential treatment reveal that state supervision has not proven to be a good substitute for parental care. In this paper we analyse the decision‐making process when young persons are placed in residential care. Foc…
Care for Sale
Market-oriented strategies have been introduced in child welfare in recent years. The aim of the study described in this article was to analyse the significance of two formal instruments that now regulate practice in child protection cases: the system of procurement in which general agreements about placement provision are reached and individual child protection investigations. The research questions were (i) How do procurement processes and gene…
Making sense of common sense
A distinguishing feature of S wedish child protection is the direct and indirect influence on decision‐making in individual cases by representatives appointed by their elected political parties. As members of local committees, they take the most interventionist and costly decisions themselves, informed by care proposals submitted by professional social workers. Other decisions are delegated to professional social workers. In direct decision‐makin…
Organisational exceptions as vehicles for change
Enhanced collaboration is among the most common strategies in Swedish crime prevention. This includes multi-agency, cross-professional work and also coordinated activities between public authorities and civil society, often in the framework of a partnership approach. The social services bear the main responsibility for setting up and facilitating this collaboration. In this article, two crime prevention programmes in Gothenburg are analysed toget…
In search of the beloved community
One element of the PARTISPACE study into spaces and styles of Youth Participation in eight European cities is presented in this article. Drawing on ethnographically informed studies of four sites in three cities, the paper analyses the ways in which young people construct and sustain alternatives to the policy-driven forms of participation, based on their yearning and aspiration for different relations than those found in ordinary life. We sugges…
Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention
In Sweden, local municipalities, working in collaboration with the police, are assigned an important role in community-based crime prevention and the promotion of safer neighbourhoods/cities. The strategies adopted are supposed to be informed by the policies of national advisory bodies, which emphasize surveying the current situation, problem analyses, systematic planning of interventions and evaluation of efforts. This paper reports on a three-y…
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden
This article maps the emergence of a risk–gang nexus in the Swedish correctional field. Using the concept of penal layering, the article analyses the configuration of risk-based practices to manage gang affiliates in the context of Swedish prison and probation services. By introducing the notion interludes of penal layering, this article stresses the synchronic/diachronic opposition in penal change processes and furthers ongoing discussions of th…
Tension management and support when leaving a gang
Gangs are commonly presented in research as an attractive alternative for those who feel excluded and unrecognized in “ordinary” society. Gang life is volatile, however, and violence (open or suppressed) is more or less omnipresent. Exiting a gang seems to be motivated by both thoughts of a better life and disappointment in the gang's failure to meet hopes and expectations. Findings From an analysis of former gang members exit processes, this art…
Navigating multiple displacements
This article contributes to the understanding of how residents and social guides collaboratively navigate multiple forms of displacement within Municipal Service Centres (MSC) situated in marginalised communities in Sweden. Drawing on critical theories of the production space, the paper posits that social work can be understood as an emplacement practice in response to displacement from vital resources such as jobs, housing, and residence permits…
Participation Put on Hold
Despite support from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), children’s actual influence on welfare policy remains inconsistent. This study investigates why children’s collective participation (CCP) failed in Swedish policy development for prevention, despite organisational openings, obligations, and opportunities. The policy development involved health care, social work, preschools, schools, and the police in an initiative inspired b…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Work (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works)