NCJ Number
95824
Date Published
1984
Length
80 pages
Annotation
A summary of a full report on trends in violent crime in Sweden since the 1970's, this report presents research findings on the frequency, incidence, and growth in violent crime in the country as well as violence associated with certain types of crime (robbery), the link between alcohol and violence, and violence against specific occupational groups such as police and store operators.
Abstract
It examines violence indicated in official statistics on robberies reported to police in 1975 and on persons prosecuted for murder, homicide, and grave assault, as well as some lesser crimes, in 1970, 1974, and 1979 in terms of three theories of violence. These theories include Bandura's theory of violence that sees violence (both its techniques and its motives) as a learned behavior, the frustration-aggression theory that considers violence to be a reaction to an individual's frustrations, and a subculture theory that sees violence as a communicative mechanism among members of a subculture group and among these groups. A review of Sweden's legal reactions to violence discusses sentencing practices and principles. For the full report, see NCJ-95820.