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Juvenile delinquency is a problematic social phenomenon that could lead to major future social problems. These social problems are very likely to affect the juveniles as well as the society overall. Because of this, it is extremely important, but also interesting, to investigate and highlight this particular problem. An effort made to counteract this problem is a community intervention team (Sociala insatsgrupper), which through collaboration with various authorities aim to help juveniles from a criminal life. The purpose of the study was to investigate how community intervention teams in the city of Malmö work with juveniles who are living a criminal lifestyle. We also intended to investigate how the information that emerged about the effort harmonized with selected theory and previous research. In order to achieve this, we chose to conduct a document analysis based on selected documents, all of which explain and describe the work with community intervention teams. The results from the study shows that the work done by the community intervention teams, are highly well functioning, due to the collaborations between different authorities. Further on, the result shows that the information from the chosen documents do harmonize with theory and previous research, about juvenile delinquency.