Recruited via social media, adolescents under the age of 15 are taken in by gangs to kill for money. Many of these young ...

Spreading gang crime poses headache for centre-left government 2022 on track to be worst year for gang violence Crime tops voters' concerns ahead of September 11 election OREBRO, Aug 12 (Reuters ...

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s national police chief said Tuesday that an escalation in gang violence this year — with almost daily shootings and bombings that have claimed dozens of lives ...

Getting the military involved in crime-fighting would be a highly unusual step for Sweden, underscoring the severity of the gang violence that has claimed a dozen lives across the country this ...

Sweden’s prime minister announced that he will hold talks with the head of the Swedish armed forces and the police commissioner to discuss ways to stem gang violence following a wave of attacks ...

Mr. Rodríguez is a photojournalist who has reported extensively on incarceration, gangs, the police and re-entry. We used to believe in Sweden that the rights and well-being of children should ...

One recent case involved a boy of just 11 years old. Children are the ideal catspaw for Sweden’s gangs: those aged under 15 are too young to be prosecuted, a quirk of Swedish law that critics ...

For years Sweden has suffered from high rates of gang-related violence, but for the past two years it has been relentless. In the first ten months of the year there were 324 shootings in Sweden ...

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will meet the national army and police chiefs on Friday to combat a surge in gang violence, as the country reels from record shooting deaths this ...