This article investigates how social workers’ interpretations of contextual factors and the relationship between victim and offender affect their understanding and assessment of male violent victimization. The study was designed as a multiple case study with a qualitative comparative approach. Focus group interviews supported by vignettes were used to collect data. Interviews were carried out with professional Swedish social workers working with victimized men and women at support units for young crime victims in Sweden. The results show that the social workers consider the violence that the young men are subjected to in cases of street violence and interpersonal violence to be unavoidable or even ‘natural’. The violence was in some cases considered to be dependent on the men’s own agency and in others on their lack of agency, when displaying traits of both more traditional and less traditional forms of masculinity respectively. The social workers’ talk about young male crime victims is interpreted as contributing to making the men appear as less legitimate victims. Even though the social workers argued that the victims’ own behaviour should not lead to any special considerations concerning help efforts, the possibility of upholding such a demarcation between explanations ascribed to the violent incident and help measures offered is problematized in the article.

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瑞典社会工作者理解青年男性暴力受害的情境和受害者-犯罪者关系的意义

本文调查了社会工作者对情境因素的解释以及受害者与犯罪者之间的关系如何影响他们对男性暴力受害的理解和评估。该研究被设计为具有定性比较方法的多案例研究。由小插曲支持的焦点小组访谈用于收集数据。与在瑞典年轻犯罪受害者支持单位与受害男女一起工作的专业瑞典社会工作者进行了访谈。结果表明，社会工作者认为青年男子在街头暴力和人际暴力案件中遭受的暴力是不可避免的，甚至是“自然的”。暴力在某些情况下被认为是依赖于男性自己的能动性，而在另一些情况下则是因为他们缺乏能动性，当分别表现出更传统和不那么传统的男性气质的特征时。社会工作者关于年轻男性犯罪受害者的谈话被解释为有助于使男性显得不那么合法的受害者。尽管社会工作者认为受害者自己的行为不应该导致任何关于帮助努力的特殊考虑，但在文章中对暴力事件的解释和提供的帮助措施之间的这种区分的可能性进行了质疑。