Safe Sweden faces up to wave of women's killings

BBC ^ | May 5 2021 | Maddy Savage

[euram]

Six women have been killed in just five weeks in Sweden, reigniting debates about domestic violence in a country usually praised for its gender equality.

The deaths span three regions and three generations, but in almost all cases there has been a common thread: the arrest of a man they had had a close relationship with.

Two of the killings took place in broad daylight: one in a rural town centre in the south of the country, another at a train and bus station in Linkoping, a university city south of the capital.

In Flemingsberg, a low-income Stockholm suburb packed with tower blocks clad in primary colours, a woman was stabbed in the apartment she shared with four young children. The man arrested on suspicion of her murder is someone she reportedly knew well.

[Mr.Unique]

Victim surveys are generally considered to be the best gauge of the actual level of crimes.

Which is why you don't compare a poor gauge to the best gauge and call the difference "33 times as many" occurrences.

[edwinland]

Which is why you don't compare a poor gauge to the best gauge

Can you specify which of the sources I compared is a "poor gauge".

For Sweden I linked to the official crime victimization study produced by Brå, the statistics arm of the Swedish Ministry of Justice.

For the U.S. I provided a link to the equivalent official crime victimization study of the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics.

If I did the math wrong, please go ahead and correct my math. And if you know of a better source for crime victimization statistics than the ones I provided well then (to quote the sage) "Ahm all ears".

[edwinland]

You are wrapped around the axle on the term “reported.”

Fair point. I should have just told you that you used the wrong word (the data I provided was not for reported crimes) and left it at that.