Sweden’s parliament will vote on plans to hold 13-year-olds criminally responsible and, in serious cases, imprison them. Other European nations are also lowering age limits.
Sweden’s parliament will vote on plans to hold 13-year-olds criminally responsible and, in serious cases, imprison them. Other European nations are also lowering age limits.
The debate in regards to 13 year old gang members has gone into semantics in Sweden.
Everyone seem to agree that to break a kid free from a gang you have to physically remove the kid from the gang and then give it proper care with education and rehab.
The “hard on crime” parties call this prison, the others see it as an extension of social services and label it thereafter.
The result will be that the gangs recruit twelve year olds to shoot their rivals or blow up their rivals flat.
Valid point. Do you have ideas for a better solution?
Have them watch all Dirty Harry movies on repeat so they learn that shooting gang members and criminals is cool 😎
Very little separates a 11 year old and a 10 year 350 day old. Hard age bars are not going to help because the ppl taking advantage of kids have no scruples.
Tbh, making children aware of the issue and social net (amnesty + support) for the vulnerable kids is the best course of action. Unfortunately social nets are not cheap and every year new targets are born
Reactively I think removing the kids from the harmful environment and giving them a forced chance to rehab is the move. As long as we have kids in socio-economic situations where they see no future but to join the gangs it won’t get better but I don’t really have a fix.