News
13 February 2025
Application and consequences of the consent law
In 2018, changes were made to the legislation concerning rape – the so-called ‘consent law’. This new study includes a review of all convictions relating to completed rape against an adult, as well as a sample of processed reports and associated police investi...
24 January 2025
Increased gun violence in Sweden
This study examines gun violence trends in the criminal milieu since the mid-2000s, analysing how the criminal milieu has changed and what role these changes may have played in gun violence trends.
21 January 2025
Persons suspected of offences with LGBTQI-related hate crimes
This report supplements Brå’s hate crime statistics with a descriptive analysis of persons suspected of committing offences that has been reported to the police and where Brå have identified LGBTQI-related hate crime motives
21 January 2025
Children and youth in criminal networks
This report presents a study focused on the way children and youth become involved in criminal networks. The study examines the offences that these young people typically engage in and what opportunities they have to leave criminal networks.
11 December 2024
Residential burglary
This study provides an overall picture of the nature of residential burglaries in Sweden. It also examines the development of this crime over time and how the police handle residential burglaries.
1 November 2024
School Survey on Crime 2023
The overall purpose of this survey is to describe trends over time in self-reported exposure to crime and participation in crime among students attending lower-secondary schools in year 9.
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
Swedish Crime Survey 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
Serious Violence at School
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.