Open AccessSerious violence – a challenge and reason for reforms?
Author(s) -
Malin Sjöstrand
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
bergen journal of criminal law and criminal justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1894-4183
DOI - 10.15845/bjclcj.v9i2.3527
Subject(s) - legislator , punishment (psychology) , criminology , focus (optics) , adaptation (eye) , criminal law , criminal behaviour , political science , psychology , law and economics , sociology , law , social psychology , legislation , neuroscience , physics , optics
This text discusses the more recent changes in Swedish criminal law with a focus on the more serious crime and some of the measures lately taken to counter that kind of criminality. A brief walk through the earlier reasoning on punishment and consequences is followed by a glimpse of the reasoning by the Swedish legislator on the rationale of increasing the penalty levels and remodeling the crimes themselves. In the conclusion we find some answers to whether we are dealing with symbolic measures without support in research or an adaptation to society changes and public view on increasing crime.