Girls commit crimes just as often as boys ━ The European Conservative

A survey by the Swedish Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) shows that crime among youth in the country is increasingly gender-equal and that as many girls as boys admit to committing crimes.

In a survey of ninth graders (15-year-olds) in 400 elementary schools across the country, more than half of students – 51.3% – admitted to criminal activity in the past year. Reported criminal activity includes violence, theft, threats, robberies, vandalism, drug offenses and sexual offenses. The number of criminal boys is only one percentage point higher than that of girls.

Foreign-born and Swedish-born students with two foreign-born parents are “slightly” more likely to commit serious violent crimes, grand theft and drug offenses, the report said.

If you look at the numbers more closely – and if you consider that they are self-reported – the difference between children of immigrants or second-generation immigrants and children born in Sweden to Swedish parents appears to be a little more than “marginal.” to be: While 3.1% of Swedish children report having committed a serious violent crime, the figure is 6.4% for immigrant children and 6.2% for second-generation immigrants.

While the summary published by Brå emphasizes that it is a survey and that speculation about causality is beyond the scope, it is noted that a majority of delinquent youth (73.5%) see their family as “weak economic resources ” designated. The connection between crime and family composition is almost as strong: 68% of children who admit to breaking the law have never had their parents together.

45.3% of 9th grade students say they have been the victim of at least one crime – such as assault, threats, robbery, sex crimes or theft – in the past year. The most commonly reported crime was theft, affecting 26.3% of students. This was followed by assault (19.6%), sexual offenses (12.5%), threats (11.9%) and robbery (2.6%). Boys were more likely to be victims of assault, while girls were more likely to be victims of sexual crimes. The vast majority of boys who were sexually abused reported the crimes committed at school during school hours.

Less than a third of victims said they reported the crimes to the police.