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17 October 2024
Police investigations of serious crimes and crimes against particularly vulnerable victims
Since 2021, the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) has been commissioned by the Government with evaluating the initiative for 10,000 more police employees. The initiative aims to increase the number of police employees by 10,000 over the perio...
16 October 2024
The main purpose of the Swedish Crime Survey (SCS) is to study trends in self-reported exposure to crime, fear of crime, confidence in the criminal justice system and crime victims' contact with the criminal justice system in the Swedish population (16-84 year...
1 October 2024
Facilitators of criminal networks
This report studies facilitators in the legal sector who provide assistance to criminal networks. A facilitator is here defined as someone misusing his or her position or mandate in local government or the public or private sectors in order to benefit criminal...
27 August 2024
This report studies the extent and development of serious school violence in order to improve the knowledge on violence in schools and strengthen crime prevention efforts.
13 August 2024
Hate crime against the Sami minority
This report studies the nature of hate crime against the Sami population in Sweden and details specific instances, including reindeer-related offences. In the report, Brå also makes proposals regarding how to increase the visibility of the Sami’s exposure to h...
13 August 2024
Hate crime against the Sami minority
This report studies the nature of hate crime against the Sami population in Sweden and details specific instances, including reindeer-related offences. In the report, Brå also makes proposals regarding how to increase the visibility of the Sami’s exposure to h...
27 June 2024
This report provides an overall description of the way in which crime prevention proceeds and develops on the local, regional and national levels.
8 May 2024
This report presents the overall findings on victims of intimate partner violence, both during 2022 and throughout life.
14 December 2023
Hate crimes reported to the police in 2022
This report presents the overall findings on victims of intimate partner violence, both during 2022 and throughout life.
1 December 2023
The police’s work in connection with profiling and equal treatment
This report presents the results of Brå’s study on the police’s work in connection with profiling and equal treatment. The study stems from the Swedish Police Authority’s request for an independent party to investigate what this work looks like at different le...