2024-04-242023/24:JuU19 · p.7JuUJustice
Project against recruitment of children and young people
Mandating the crime-prevention agency to spread and evaluate local efforts against recruitment into crime
What's at stake: The question is whether successful local efforts that keep children away from criminal networks should be systematically spread nationwide through a clear agency mandate, or whether existing evaluation support is enough. It particularly affects municipalities that struggle to identify on their own which methods work.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The motion called for the government to mandate the crime-prevention agency to actively spread a successful local anti-recruitment project to more municipalities and to map and evaluate similar efforts, while the committee held that existing support for evaluation already covers the need.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee notes that the crime-prevention agency already has a mandate to provide financial support for evaluations and follow-up of crime-prevention efforts, and that such support has, among other things, been granted for evaluating a relevant local project. In view of this ongoing work, the committee sees no reason for further initiative and rejects the motion.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 8 (V)
The reserving party (V) wants the government to task the crime-prevention agency with spreading a project — a collaboration between social services, police and other actors with a particular focus on younger children to prevent recruitment into organised crime — to all municipalities that need it. It also wants the agency tasked with mapping and evaluating similar local anti-recruitment projects in order to spread good practice.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 8 by V.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The decision would have gone the other way
Explicit commitments that contradicted the vote: KDKristdemokraterna, LLiberalerna, MModeraterna, MPMiljöpartiet, SSocialdemokraterna
Ja 285–21Nej 87–219
Counterfactual: the parties above are moved to the position their own documents explicitly point at, carrying their whole contingent present. Every other party keeps its real figures, including dissenters and absentees.
How the AI parties would have voted
For each party: what its own plan – election manifesto and party programme – argues for in this case, next to how the party actually voted. The AI can only answer Yes or No; a party can also abstain.
| AI | Vote | Confidence | Evidence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V | No | No 0/21/0/3 | match | confidence: high | explicit |
| S | No | Yes 92/0/0/14 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| MP | No | Yes 16/0/0/2 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| C | No | Yes 22/0/0/2 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| L | No | Yes 14/0/0/2 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| KD | No | Yes 17/0/0/2 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| M | No | Yes 59/0/0/9 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| SD | No | Yes 63/0/0/9 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
Committee proposal
Parliament rejects the motion 2023/24:2322 by Gudrun Nordborg et al. (V) demands 4 and 5.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motion 2023/24:2322 av Gudrun Nordborg m.fl. (V) yrkandena 4 och 5.
Riksdag decision: The Justice Committee proposes that parliament says no to approximately 30 proposals in motions on young offenders that came in during the general motion period 2023. The motions address, among other things, detention of children, the recruitment of children and young people to criminal gangs, relaxed confidentiality rules, and custodial sanctions for young people. The Committee refers to ongoing investigative work and announced reforms in the field.
Counter-proposals
- The counter-proposal wants to limit the maximum continuous detention time for children. (V) — Reservation 8
Plan vs actual vote
Every party, in chamber order: what its own plan pointed to, how it voted, and the reasoning behind both. Highlighted rows are where the two differ — but a vote that follows the plan is a result too, so the reasoning is there for every party.
The plan says that focus must above all be directed at preventing the recruitment of new children into gang crime, and that this requires comprehensive preventive measures with a strengthened social services and schools.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan says that focus must above all be directed at preventing the recruitment of new children into gang crime, and that this requires comprehensive preventive measures with a strengthened social services and schools. Spreading functioning cooperation between social services, police and other actors to more municipalities and evaluating similar projects is the same line. The plan therefore supports the demand.
Original (Swedish)
Planen säger att fokus framför allt måste riktas mot att förhindra rekryteringen av nya barn till gängkriminalitet och att detta kräver omfattande förebyggande insatser med förstärkt socialtjänst och skola. Att sprida ett fungerande samarbete mellan socialtjänst, polis och andra aktörer till fler kommuner och utvärdera liknande projekt är samma linje. Planen stöder därför kravet.
- prevent new recruitment of childrendecisive»Vissa straff kan behöva höjas men mycket mer fokus måste riktas mot att förhindra rekryteringen av nya barn till gängkriminalitet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Some penalties may need to be raised but much more focus must be directed at preventing the recruitment of new children to gang crime.”
- comprehensive preventive measures»Det kräver nämligen omfattande förebyggande insatser.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“This requires comprehensive preventive measures.”
- strengthened social services»förstärk socialtjänsten med tillräckliga resurser och kunskap för att arbeta både förebyggande och med barnskydd« (2022 manifesto ↗)“strengthen social services with sufficient resources and knowledge to work both preventively and with child protection”
- resources for local actors»Skola och fritidsverksamheter behöver ges bättre resurser, likaså socialtjänsten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Schools and leisure activities need to be given better resources, as does social services.”
The plan's commitment is that no young person shall become criminal and that recruitment must be stopped, with more cooperation between police, social services and school and with at least as much resources for preventive work as for more police.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan's commitment is that no young person shall become criminal and that recruitment must be stopped, with more cooperation between police, social services and school and with at least as much resources for preventive work as for more police. Spreading a functioning local cooperation against the recruitment of younger children to more municipalities, and mapping and evaluating similar projects, is a direct application of this.
Original (Swedish)
Planens åtagande är att ingen ung ska bli kriminell och att nyrekryteringen måste stoppas, med mer samarbete mellan polis, socialtjänst och skola och med minst lika mycket resurser till förebyggande arbete som till fler poliser. Att sprida ett fungerande lokalt samarbete mot rekrytering av yngre barn till fler kommuner, och kartlägga och utvärdera liknande projekt, är en direkt tillämpning av detta.
- stop recruitmentdecisive»Ingen ung ska bli kriminell. Nyrekryteringen måste stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“No young person shall become criminal. Recruitment must be stopped.”
- local cooperation around children»Det behövs mer samarbete mellan polis, elevhälsa, socialtjänst och skola.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“There is a need for more cooperation between police, student health, social services and school.”
- prioritised preventive work»För varje krona som läggs på fler poliser, ska minst en krona läggas på det förebyggande arbetet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“For every krona spent on more police, at least one krona shall be spent on preventive work.”
- strengthened social services»Att socialtjänsten stärks är centralt för att fånga upp unga i tid.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthening social services is central to catching young people in time.”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The election manifesto wants to ease confidentiality restrictions between area police, schools and social services and make a major investment in preventive work in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, precisely to inoculate children against gang recruitment.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto wants to ease confidentiality restrictions between area police, schools and social services and make a major investment in preventive work in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, precisely to inoculate children against gang recruitment. The party programme wants to strengthen cooperation around children at risk and remove obstacles to it. Spreading and evaluating local cooperation projects against new recruitment follows directly from this.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet vill lätta sekretessen mellan områdespoliser, skola och socialtjänst och storsatsa på förebyggande arbete i socioekonomiskt eftersatta områden, just för att vaccinera barn mot gängens locktoner. Partiprogrammet vill stärka samverkan kring barn i riskzonen och arbeta bort hindren för den. Att sprida och utvärdera lokala samverkansprojekt mot nyrekrytering följer direkt av detta.
- cooperation around children at riskdecisive»lätta på sekretessen mellan områdespoliser, skola, socialtjänst och stärka samarbetet med civilsamhälle så att inga barn faller mellan stolarna i det förebyggande arbetet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“ease confidentiality restrictions between area police, schools, social services and strengthen cooperation with civil society so that no children fall through the cracks in preventive work.”
- prevention in disadvantaged areas»storsatsa på det förebyggande arbetet i socioekonomiskt eftersatta områden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“make a major investment in preventive work in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.”
- remove obstacles to cooperation»in, bör stärkas. Hinder för denna samverkan bör« (party programme ↗)“should be strengthened. Obstacles to this cooperation should”
- prevent new recruitment»Så vaccinerar vi våra barn mot gängens locktoner« (2022 manifesto ↗)“That's how we inoculate our children against gang recruitment”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The plan requires better measures preventing recruitment into criminal networks and that preventive work starts early and permeates all of society.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan requires better measures preventing recruitment into criminal networks and that preventive work starts early and permeates all of society. Spreading a functioning cooperation between social services and police directed at younger children to more municipalities, and mapping and evaluating similar projects, is a direct application of that commitment. The plan lifts preventive measures as a load-bearing part of the social contract.
Original (Swedish)
Planen kräver bättre insatser som förebygger nyrekrytering till kriminella nätverk och att förebyggande arbete börjar tidigt och genomsyrar hela samhället. Att sprida ett fungerande samarbete mellan socialtjänst och polis riktat mot yngre barn till fler kommuner, och att kartlägga och utvärdera liknande projekt, är en direkt tillämpning av det åtagandet. Planen lyfter förebyggande insatser som en bärande del av samhällskontraktet.
- prevent recruitmentdecisive»För att besegra dem krävs bättre insatser som förebygger nyrekrytering, mer resurser till polis, åklagare, domstolar och kriminalvården och strängare straff.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“To defeat them requires better measures preventing recruitment, more resources for police, prosecutors, courts and the prison service and stricter sentences.”
- early measures»Det förebyggande arbetet måste börja tidigt och genomsyra hela samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Preventive work must start early and permeate all of society.”
- investment in prevention»Vi behöver rusta Sveriges totalförsvar, stärka hela rättskedjan, satsa på förebyggande insatser och en likvärdig skola.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We need to strengthen Sweden's total defence, strengthen the entire justice chain, invest in preventive measures and a fair school.”
The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.
The election manifesto requires that police and social services as a rule shall always be able to exchange information and more often share facilities, that municipalities' crime prevention work is prescribed by law and that measures against young people sliding into crime become earlier and clearer.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto requires that police and social services as a rule shall always be able to exchange information and more often share facilities, that municipalities' crime prevention work is prescribed by law and that measures against young people sliding into crime become earlier and clearer. National programs such as home visits in disadvantaged areas show that the plan wants to spread working methods widely. The counter-proposal's dissemination and evaluation of local cooperation projects follow directly from this.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet kräver att polis och socialtjänst som huvudregel alltid ska kunna utbyta information och oftare dela lokaler, att kommunernas brottsförebyggande arbete lagstadgas och att insatserna mot att unga glider in i brottslighet blir tidigare och tydligare. Nationella program som hembesök i utsatta områden visar att planen vill sprida fungerande arbetssätt brett. Motförslagets spridning och utvärdering av lokala samverkansprojekt följer direkt av detta.
- cooperation between police and social servicesdecisive»Polis och socialtjänst ska som huvudregel alltid kunna utbyta information sinsemellan och ska oftare dela lokaler.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Police and social services shall as a rule always be able to exchange information with each other and shall more often share facilities.”
- early measures against recruitment»Tidigare, tydligare och tuffare insatser för att förebygga och förhindra att unga glider in i brottslighet måste till.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Earlier, clearer and tougher measures to prevent and stop young people from sliding into crime are necessary.”
- municipal crime prevention assignment»Kommuners brottsförebyggande arbete ska lagstadgas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Municipalities' crime prevention work shall be prescribed by law.”
- national dissemination of interventions»Vi vill se nationella hembesöksprogram från socialtjänsten för nyblivna förstagångsföräldrar i utsatta områden« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to see national home visit programs from social services for new first-time parents in disadvantaged areas”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The election manifesto wants to establish a national social intervention force precisely so that preventive work is strengthened and becomes more equal across the country, which is the same as spreading functioning local cooperation to more municipalities.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto wants to establish a national social intervention force precisely so that preventive work is strengthened and becomes more equal across the country, which is the same as spreading functioning local cooperation to more municipalities. The party programme places a large task on social services, police and schools in close cooperation to prevent crime early. Mapping and evaluation are also important political tasks according to the plan.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet vill inrätta en nationell social insatsstyrka just för att det förebyggande arbetet ska stärkas och bli mer lika i landet, vilket är samma sak som att sprida fungerande lokala samarbeten till fler kommuner. Partiprogrammet lägger en stor uppgift på socialtjänst, polis och skola i nära samverkan för att tidigt förhindra kriminalitet. Kartläggning och utvärdering är dessutom enligt planen viktiga politiska uppgifter.
- equivalent prevention across the countrydecisive»Stärk sociala insatser och socialtjänstens möjligheter till tvingande åtgärder gentemot barn och unga som begår brott. Inrätta en nationell social insatsstyrka, så det förebyggande arbetet stärks och blir mer lika i landet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen social measures and the social services' possibilities for coercive measures against children and young people who commit crimes. Establish a national social intervention force so that preventive work is strengthened and becomes more equal across the country.”
- cooperation against new recruitment»Socialtjänsten, polisen och skolan har en stor uppgift i detta avseende« (party programme ↗)“Social services, police and schools have a large task in this regard”
- early measures for younger children»Förebygg brott genom att stärka familjerna och föräldraansvaret och göra det obligatoriskt med föräldrastöd i alla Sverige kommuner.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Prevent crime by strengthening families and parental responsibility and making it mandatory with parental support in all Swedish municipalities.”
- evaluation of measures»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The election manifesto promises a national no entry programme for young people at risk and that all confidentiality barriers between social services and police be removed, as well as a national knowledge centre for crime prevention.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto promises a national no entry programme for young people at risk and that all confidentiality barriers between social services and police be removed, as well as a national knowledge centre for crime prevention. The counter-proposal's demands to spread a local cooperation project against recruitment to more municipalities and to map and evaluate similar projects respond to these commitments. The plan therefore supports the demand.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet lovar ett nationellt no entry-program för unga i riskzonen och att alla sekretesshinder mellan socialtjänst och polis undanröjs, samt ett nationellt kunskapscentrum för brottsprevention. Motförslagets krav på att sprida ett lokalt samverkansprojekt mot nyrekrytering till fler kommuner och att kartlägga och utvärdera liknande projekt svarar mot dessa åtaganden. Planen stöder därför kravet.
- no entry programme nationwidedecisive»Ta bort sekretesshindren mellan polis och socialtjänst samt inrätta ett nationellt no entry-program för unga i riskzonen i syfte att snabbt stoppa en påbörjad kriminell karriär« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove confidentiality barriers between police and social services and establish a national no entry programme for young people at risk in order to quickly stop a begun criminal career”
- spread knowledge about crime prevention»Inrätta ett nationellt kunskapscentrum för brottsprevention och ett nationellt avhopparprogram för gängkriminella« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Establish a national knowledge centre for crime prevention and a national exit programme for gang criminals”
- cooperation between social services and police»Undanröja alla sekretesshinder mellan socialtjänst och polis« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove all confidentiality barriers between social services and police”
- stop recruitment of children»Där kan de inte begå fler brott och inte rekrytera in fler ungdomar och barn in i kriminalitet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“There they cannot commit more crimes and cannot recruit more young people and children into criminality.”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The plan requires that social services, schools and the justice system can intervene early and that social services' preventive efforts increase to catch young people drifting away, with early interventions against those on the fringes of gangs.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan requires that social services, schools and the justice system can intervene early and that social services' preventive efforts increase to catch young people drifting away, with early interventions against those on the fringes of gangs. The counter-proposal's requirement that a cooperation model against recruitment of younger children be spread to more municipalities follows from this, and the requirement for mapping and evaluation responds to the plan's requirement for results.
Original (Swedish)
Planen kräver att socialtjänst, skola och rättsväsende kan ingripa tidigt och att socialtjänstens förebyggande insatser ökar för att fånga upp unga på glid, med tidiga markeringar mot dem som finns i gängens utkanter. Motförslagets krav på att sprida en samverkansmodell mot nyrekrytering av yngre barn till fler kommuner följer av detta, och kravet på kartläggning och utvärdering svarar mot planens resultatkrav.
- early interventionsdecisive»Ge socialtjänst, skola och rättsväsende möjlighet att ingripa med tuffare tag i ett tidigt skede« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give social services, schools and the justice system the opportunity to intervene with firmer action at an early stage.”
- preventive social services»Att socialtjänstens förebyggande insatser ska öka för att tidigt fånga upp ungdomar på glid« (2022 manifesto ↗)“That social services' preventive efforts shall increase to catch young people early on in their drift away”
- early interventions against recruitment»Det kan bara göras med samtidiga polisiära och ingripande insatser mot de individer som idag befinner sig i kriminella miljöer och med tidiga markeringar mot de som finns i gängen och klanernas utkanter.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“This can only be done through simultaneous police and interventive measures against individuals who today find themselves in criminal environments and with early interventions against those in gangs and clans' fringes.”
- evaluate investments»Begära tydliga resultat för varje offentlig satsning« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Demand clear results for every public investment.”
The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.
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Sources and documents
- The committee report on riksdagen.se (2023/24:JuU19)
- Committee report full text (HB01JuU19)
- Per-MP voting data (API)
- Case status (API)
Documents under consideration
- Motion 2023/24:1723 — En infrastruktur mellan de offentliga myndigheterna och civilsamhället av Lena Johansson (S)
- Motion 2023/24:2169 — Nya ungdomsstraff av Helena Storckenfeldt (M)
- Motion 2023/24:2322 — En starkare polisorganisation av Gudrun Nordborg m.fl. (V)
- Motion 2023/24:2416 — Införande av särskilda ungdomsdomstolar av Cecilia Engström (KD)
- Motion 2023/24:2452 — Stärkta rättigheter för barn som flyr till Sverige av Annika Hirvonen m.fl. (MP)
- Motion 2023/24:2482 — En skola för livsresor av Muharrem Demirok m.fl. (C)
- Motion 2023/24:2484 — Rättspolitik av Ulrika Liljeberg m.fl. (C)
- Motion 2023/24:2499 — Jämställdhet på riktigt av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C)
- Motion 2023/24:2617 — Utgiftsområde 9 Hälsovård, sjukvård och social omsorg av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2023/24:2640 — Utgiftsområde 4 Rättsväsendet av Ardalan Shekarabi m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2023/24:2669 — Rättspolitik av Märta Stenevi m.fl. (MP)
- Motion 2023/24:2687 — Utgiftsområde 16 Utbildning och universitetsforskning av Åsa Westlund m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2023/24:436 — En modern kriminalvård av Gudrun Nordborg m.fl. (V)
- Motion 2023/24:454 — Åtgärder mot unga lagöverträdare av Richard Jomshof m.fl. (SD)
Source: The Swedish Parliament