World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems, Sweden
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/wfbcjswe.txt
Provides a narrative description of the criminal justice system of Sweden. Forty-two other country descriptions
are written with a common template so that comparisons of similar functions in different countries can be made easily.
Basic Facts
www.kriminalvarden.se/upload/Informationsmaterial/Basic%20Facts%2007.pdf
Presents information and statistics about the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
Foreign Prisoners in European Penitentiary Institutions
www.kriminalvarden.se/upload/Informationsmaterial/Forein%20prisoners%20in%20Sweden.pdf
Presents information on foreign prisoners in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) - Council of Europe
GRECO evaluation procedures involve the collection of information through questionnaire(s), on-site country visits enabling evaluation teams to solicit further information during high-level discussions with domestic key players, and drafting of evaluation reports. These reports, which are examined and adopted by GRECO, contain recommendations to the evaluated countries in order to improve their level of compliance with the provisions under consideration. Measures taken to implement recommendations are subsequently assessed by GRECO under a separate compliance procedure
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Sweden. The report has been made public with the agreement of the country’s authorities. It focuses on two distinct themes: criminalisation of corruption and transparency of party funding.
Centralforbundet for
alkohol och narkotikaupplysning
(Swedish Council for
Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs)
www.can.se
CAN's mission is to prevent alcohol and other drug abuse through the provision of facts, documentation and
information. It aims to circulate objective information, serving people
and organizations involved in drug prevention work. For this purpose
CAN produces information resources, runs a library service and arranges
training courses, seminars and conferences. CAN also monitors trends in
the drug use and abuse, carrying out its own surveys and studies such
as annual surveys on drug use among
students and military conscripts. It is also compiling and summarizing
survey
findings, statistics and other data sourced from external researchers.
CAN provides a link between research and the community. This web site
includes fact sheets on national trends in the use of a number of illicit drugs,
as well as alcohol and tobacco. More extensive information in
Swedish includes Frequently Asked Questions about drugs, fact sheets on
different types of drugs, details about the CAN library and upcoming
seminars, and links to other sites of interest in Sweden.
European Centre for Monitoring Drugs and Drug Addiction (ECMDDA) - Country Overview
www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-overviews/se
This overview presents a comprehensive overview of the drugs situation in Sweden. Topics covered in the country overview include: drug use among the general population and young people, prevention, problem drug use, treatment demand, drug-related infectious diseases, drug-related deaths, treatment responses, harm reduction responses, drug markets and drug-related offences, national drug laws, national drug strategy, coordination mechanism in the field of drugs and drug-related research. Also included in the country report are key statistics on the drug situation and a barometer that indicates the prevalence profile and relative rating of the country.
Narcotic Drugs Statistics
www.bra.se/extra/measurepoint/?module_instance=4&name=summary.pdf&url=/dynamaster/file_archive/051201/8e306e19374f3aecc770e64b8ce321e3/summary.pdf
This presents a picture of drug affluence for 2004 and compares them
with previous year.
Hate Crimes
These are summary reports to the police of crimes motivated by xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
Annual Reports to Congress on International Religious Freedom - Sweden
These reports, produced by the U.S. Department of State, describe the status of religious freedom in Sweden, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations, and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. It is submitted in compliance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Serious Violence at School
www.bra.se/extra/measurepoint/?module_instance=4&name=Serious_violence_at_school_summary.pdf&url=/dynamaster/file_archive/090729/b92f847b40aa8fb8ae81ca4e03a79682/Serious%255fviolence%255fat%255fschool%255fsummary.pdf
This summary report offers analysis In the light of the shooting outrage at Jokela School, in Finland, in 2007, in
which eight people were shot to death, and following on from other serious
violent offences at schools, the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
(Brå) was instructed by the Department of Education to conduct an investigation
into serious violent crime at Swedish schools. The focus of the National
Council's report is therefore directed at violence that commonly results in
physical injury. The Swedish Government has instructed a number of other
agencies to disseminate knowledge on programmes to combat bullying and other
forms of humiliating treatment. The Government instructed the National
Council for Crime Prevention to address the following three areas: a quantitative examination of serious school violence, international experiences of preventing serious school violence, and Swedish schools’ view of serious school violence.
Youths and Crime in the Swedish Counties 1995 - 2005
Presents results from six self-report studies among Swedish year nine pupils.