Law (1990: 52) with special provisions for the care of young people (LVU) provides legal requirements that should be met when applying the law. The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze LVU judges in two different counties based on section 3 in LVU. The investigation includs four judgments from Stockholm's Administrative Court and four judgments from Uppsala's Administrative Court. The judgement elected for this study were based on Section 3 of the LVU, primarily to be able to analyze the three requisits in the law: abuse, crime and other socially degrading behavior. The judgments were based on all the props contained in the LVU. The method used in the study was a content analysis, in the form of a text analysis. The result of the study shows that there are gender-specific differences in the judgments examined.