Posted on 11/04/2025 5:58:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In September, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced plans to lower Sweden's age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 for the most serious crimes, including murder and aggravated bombing.
The reform is a response to a surge in deadly gang violence. Police say criminal networks increasingly recruit children to carry out shootings and deliver weapons, as minors under 15 cannot be prosecuted.
The government in Stockholm had previously announced the creation of special detention units for 15- to 17-year-olds in Swedish prisons. Under the new proposal, the plan is being expanded to include youth-prison units for 13- to 14-year-olds, too. Youth offenders could already start being sent to these detention facilities as soon as next summer, according to the Swedish Justice Ministry.
The government argues the change will close a loophole exploited by gangs. But legal experts, child-rights organizations and social workers warn that lowering the threshold will not deter crime and may undermine rehabilitation.
Europe's minimum ages of criminal responsibility vary dramatically — from 10 years in Ireland to 16 in Portugal and Luxembourg.
Despite the differences, all European Union countries run separate juvenile justice systems for under-18s, where the focus is meant to be on education and rehabilitation rather than punishment. Yet the line between protecting and prosecuting minors has increasingly blurred as political debates harden around youth crime.
In countries with higher age limits, such as Finland or Portugal, the emphasis is firmly on social reintegration. Elsewhere, growing concern over youth involvement in violent crime has fueled calls to toughen the rules — a trend now visible in Sweden and Germany, for example.
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That’s Islamaphobic./sarc
Sounds pretty sensible to me.
“Aggravated bombing”!
Now, Sven, put down that there bomb. Doncha know you could put yer eye out with that?
Lets hope for this in the U.S.
Esp. a 6’2” 225 lb. pre-teen yout.
Yeah, and how's that workin' out for ya? We have the same misguided approach here and the results are even worse. Time for millions of trips to the woodshed rather than holding hands and singing Kym-Bi-Ya.
Aggravated bombing? Shouldn’t they just make bombs illegal they they do guns? Lol
Sweden? I suspect their real agenda is to lock up children for misgendering.
The introduction of special status for “juveniles” happened about 1900.
The first Juvenile court was created in Cook County (Chicago) in 1899.
Rising crime rates among the youth has created concern about the effectiveness of the system.
You mean there's another kind of bombing?
Swedish children only, migrants’ children get a pass...
Gee I wonder what caused this change hmm….
Build it north of the Arctic Circle...........
Sweden has the right idea to end the problem.
“The reform is a response to a surge in deadly gang violence...”
Gee, they don’t mention what kind of people are in the gangs. I bet they’re all blond blue eyed Swedes.
Who is that? Looks familiar
I learned something a few days ago.
The Chinese symbol of yin and yang.
Yin is the side of compassion and it’s the dark half of the symbol. The reason being that too much compassion leads to darkness because it is chaos.
Yang is the side of order and it’s the light half of the symbol. Too much yang leads to authoritarianism.
The reason why they are on one symbol is because they are always in tension with each other. When one becomes too much, the other side pushes back and society will eventually swing too far the other way and then the other side will push back to correct.
I think that Sweden is learning that too much compassion is destructive and is pushing back to go the other way.
What makes more sense...
Deport invaders before they can procreate.
“Social reintegration”
Shouldn’t have brought the turd world barbarians into Sweden in the first place. They can’t be reintegrated. They were never integrated in the first place. WTF is wrong with the white Christian world? I have looked in the history books. No civilization has ever been so willfully suicidal.
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