Youth intimate partner violence

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) has been instructed by the government to study what measures can be taken in society to combat intimate partner violence (IPV) among young people. Brå was instructed to describe the causal mechanisms behind such violence, identify preventive and supportive measures and highlight gaps in the knowledge in this area on the basis of Swedish and international research. Brå was also instructed to propose strategic measures to improve society’s capacity to prevent youth intimate partner violence. In conducting the study, Brå was also instructed to collect the knowledge and experiences of relevant civil society organisations, agencies and other actors, to include a LGBTQI and children’s rights perspective, and to take the views and experiences of children and young people into account. The government’s intention was that Brå’s study would improve the knowledge base as a means of strengthening preventive and supportive measures to combat intimate partner violence among young people.